20010109000689I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper J3F-65 · Plato Center, IL · January 9, 2001

Date
January 9, 2001 · 15:00 local
Place
Plato Center, IL
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N41556
Reported as
Piper J3F65
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
17,000 total5,000 in this make and model225 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

(-23)Whiell practicing takeoffs in snow covered corn field, right landing skid hit a small snow furrow and N41556 ground-looped, damaging right gear strut, right wing tip, and propeller.

As the FAA filed it

(-23)WHIELL PRACTICING TAKEOFFS IN SNOW COVERED CORN FIELD, RIGHT LANDING SKID HIT A SMALL SNOW FURROW AND N41556 GROUND-LOOPED, DAMAGING RIGHT GEAR STRUT, RIGHT WING TIP, AND PROPELLER.