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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-18A 150 · Fort Smith, AR · March 26, 2006

Date
March 26, 2006 · 14:20 local
Place
Fort Smith, AR
Airport
Fort Smith Municipal
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6777B
Reported as
Piper PA18A150
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0

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 privacy data omitted was part of the comedy act at the ft. Smith airshow, he was the one to act as if the aircraft was having tail wheel problems as he repositioned the aircraft to show center the aircraft turned in a circle and the wind which was gusting to 25 knots lifted the tail section resulting in a nose low attitude causing a prop strike.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) THE PILOT ^PRIVACY DAT^ WAS PART OF THE COMEDY ACT AT THE FT. SMITH AIRSHOW, HE WAS THE ONE TO ACT AS IF THE AIRCRAFT WAS HAVING TAIL WHEEL PROBLEMS AS HE REPOSITIONED THE AIRCRAFT TO SHOW CENTER THE AIRCRAFT TURNED IN A CIRCLE AND THE WIND WHICH WAS GUSTING TO 25 KNOTS LIFTED THE TAIL SECTION RESULTING IN A NOSE LOW ATTITUDE CAUSING A PROP STRIKE.

Other reports on N6777B · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.