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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-12 · Harlingen, TX · August 31, 2002

Date
August 31, 2002 · 21:55 local
Place
Harlingen, TX
Airport
Rio Grande Valley International Airport
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7504H
Reported as
Piper PA12
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,000 total600 in this make and model5 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) The pilot encountered wind gust on landing rollout causing aircraft to swerve off of runway 17L and strike a taxiway identifier light. Design of the aircraft (conventional landing gear) contributed to the incident.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) THE PILOT ENCOUNTERED WIND GUST ON LANDING ROLLOUT CAUSING AIRCRAFT TO SWERVE OFF OF RUNWAY 17L AND STRIKE A TAXIWAY IDENTIFIER LIGHT. DESIGN OF THE AIRCRAFT (CONVENTIONAL LANDING GEAR) CONTRIBUTED TO THE INCIDENT.