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Accident · Minor damage

FAA accident report · Stnson L-5 · Union Parish, LA · September 7, 2008

Date
September 7, 2008 · 11:00 local
Place
Union Parish, LA
Phase of flight
Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5015N
Reported as
Stnson L5
Reported engine
Continental W6706N
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,300 total5 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) Pilot was taking off from an unimproved strip of which he was not familiar. At the rotation point of his take-off run, the main landing gear struck a small berm causing damage to the main landing gear and returning the aircraft to the ground.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) PILOT WAS TAKING OFF FROM AN UNIMPROVED STRIP OF WHICH HE WAS NOT FAMILIAR. AT THE ROTATION POINT OF HIS TAKE-OFF RUN, THE MAIN LANDING GEAR STRUCK A SMALL BERM CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE MAIN LANDING GEAR AND RETURNING THE AIRCRAFT TO THE GROUND.