# Incident 20100401004919I: Globe GC-1B, French Lick, IN, April 1, 2010

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 1, 2010, 20:30 local time
- Place: French Lick, IN
- Airport: French Lick Municipal Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Rollout
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 38.5062° N, 86.6369° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at FRENCH LICK MUNI (FRH), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.5062&lon=-86.6369&mi=10
- Aircraft: N3247K, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N3247K) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Globe GC-1B (registry code 9230104, https://openairdocs.org/model/globe-gc-1b) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental C125 series (registry code 17011, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-c125-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: GLOBE GC-1B
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR C125 SERIES
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 2,200 total, 132 in this make and model, 10 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20100401004919I

## Narrative

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

ON 04/01/2010, AT APPROXIMATELY 2030 LOCAL TIME, MR. MARK WILKERSON, CERTIFICATE NUMBER 404888567, FLYING VFR, WITHOUT A FLIGHT PLAN, PILOTED A 1946 GLOBE GC-1B, REGISTRATION, N3247K, SERIAL NUMBER 1240, FOR A LANDING ON RUNWAY 26 AT THE FRENCH LICK MUNICIPAL AIRPORT (FRH), AN UNCONTROLLED FIELD, IN FRENCH LICK, INDIANA.  THE WEATHER CONDITIONS AT DUSK WERE CLEAR, AND VISIBILITY GREATER THAN 10 NM, WITH WINDS FROM THE SOUTH AT 7 KNOTS.  THE AIRCRAFT LANDED 650 FEET FROM THE RUNWAY THRESHOLD ON THE CENTER LINE.  APPROXIMATELY 800 FEET AFTER TOUCHDOWN THE AIRCRAFT DEPARTED THE LEFT SIDE OF THE PAVED SURFACE OF THE RUNWAY INTO MOIST SOIL AND GRASS.  AFTER DEPARTING THE RUNWAY, THE LEFT LANDING GEAR SANK INTO THE SOIL AND THE AIRCRAFT BEGAN ROTATING IN A COUNTER-CLOCK WISE DIRECTION.  THE AIRCRAFT TRAVELED AN ADDITIONAL 140 FEET UNTIL THE LEFT LANDING GEAR FAILED AT THE SIDE STRUT ATTACH POINT ON THE SHOCK STRUT CAUSING THE LEFT LANDING GEAR TO COLLAPSE OUTWARD TOWARDS THE WING TIP.  THE AIRCRAFT CONTINUED TO TRAVEL WITH THE LEFT GEAR COLLAPSED FOR ANOTHER 30 FEET UNTIL IT CAME TO REST 70 FEET OFF THE RUNWAY POINTED IN A SOUTH EASTERLY DIRECTION.  THERE WERE NO PASSENGERS, NO INJURIES, NO OTHER AIRCRAFT INVOLVED, AND NO FIRE.  THERE WAS MINOR DAMAGE SUSTAINED TO AIRCRAFT, WITH NO DAMAGE TO THE LEADING EDGES OF THE WINGS, STABLIZERS, OR CONTROL SURFACES.  THERE WERE NO ANIMAL REMAINS OR INDICATIONS OF THE PRESENCE OF ANIMALS AT THE RUNWAY, ON THE AIRCRAFT, OR AT THE SITE OF THE INCIDENT.

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