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Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Amtr TAILWINDW8 · Platteville, WI · September 2, 2006

Date
September 2, 2006 · 14:00 local
Place
Platteville, WI
Airport
Grant County Airport
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N4FD
Reported as
Amtr TAILWINDW8
Reported engine
Lycoming O320*
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,667 total4 in this make and model117 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 engine lost power and the aircraft crash landed in a farmer's alfalfa field.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) THE ENGINE LOST POWER AND THE AIRCRAFT CRASH LANDED IN A FARMER'S ALFALFA FIELD.