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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtr BD-4 · Greenville, SC · February 8, 2001

Date
February 8, 2001 · 11:00 local
Place
Greenville, SC
Airport
Donaldson Center Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N997BD
Reported as
Amtr BD4
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
100 total3 in this make and model3 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) privacy data omittedwas doing takeoffs and landings in his experimental aircraft, a BD-4. When on downwind, privacy data omitted exhausted the fuel from the right tank and did not switch to the left tank. The aircraft landed on runway 23 causing minor damage.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) ^PRIVACY DA^WAS DOING TAKEOFFS AND LANDINGS IN HIS EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT, A BD-4. WHEN ON DOWNWIND, ^PRIVACY DA^ EXHAUSTED THE FUEL FROM THE RIGHT TANK AND DID NOT SWITCH TO THE LEFT TANK. THE AIRCRAFT LANDED ON RUNWAY 23 CAUSING MINOR DAMAGE.