# Incident 20030613016679I: Swftms GC1B, St Marys, GA, June 13, 2003

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 13, 2003, 10:00 local time
- Place: St Marys, GA
- Airport: St Marys Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 30.7530° N, 81.5588° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at St Marys Airport (4J6), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=30.7530&lon=-81.5588&mi=10
- Aircraft: N10JN (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: SWFTMS GC1B
- Pilot flight hours: 3,365 total, 38 in this make and model, 26 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20030613016679I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) ON JUNE 13, 2003, AT APPROXIMATELY 10:00 AM EDT, A UNIVERSAL GLOBE GC-1B, LANDED AT ST. MARYS, GEORGIA AIRPORT (4J6), AND DURING ROLL OUT GROUND LOOPED CAUSING MINOR DAMAGE. THE PILOT, MR. RONAL WILLIAM SMITH, IN HIS WRITTEN STATEMENT, SAID HE HAD DEPARTED FROM MONKS CORNER-BERKLEY COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, (50J) AT APPROXIMATELY 7:55 AM EDT, ENROUTE TO SPRUCE CREEK AIRPARK, FL., WITH A PLANNED FUEL STOP AT ST. MARYS, GEORGIA. THE PILOT STATED THAT AFTER A NORMAL LANDING, AND DURING ROLLOUT AT APPROXIMATELY 25 MPH, THE AIRCRAFT VEERED TO THE LEFT AND USING RUDDER AND BRAKE HE WAS NOT ABLE TO PREVENT THE AIRCRAFT FROM CONTINUING TO VEER AND A GROUND LOOP ENSUED AND THE RIGHT MAIN LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED AND THE RIGHT WING TIP AND THE PROPELLER STRUCK THE GROUND CAUSING MINOR DAMAGE.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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