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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · AMS Flight CARAT A · Panoche, CA · April 30, 2010

Date
April 30, 2010 · 16:30 local
Place
Panoche, CA
Airport
Panoche
Phase of flight
Takeoff: Departure Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N415PS
Reported as
AMS Flight Carat A
Reported engine
Amateur-built UNKNOWN ENG
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
582 total293 in this make and model50 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.

On takeoff roll landing gear struck unknown object, thought to be gopher hole. Takeoff aborted. On roll out right wing tip dropped causing ground loop into the weeds.

As the FAA filed it

ON TAKEOFF ROLL LANDING GEAR STRUCK UNKNOWN OBJECT, THOUGHT TO BE GOPHER HOLE. TAKEOFF ABORTED. ON ROLL OUT RIGHT WING TIP DROPPED CAUSING GROUND LOOP INTO THE WEEDS.