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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Grumman American Avn. AA-5B · Clewiston, FL · April 17, 2011

Date
April 17, 2011 · 13:45 local
Place
Clewiston, FL
Airport
Airglades
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N28HG
Reported as
Grumman American Avn. AA-5B
Reported engine
Lycoming O&VO-360 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
1
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
2,600 total306 in this make and model

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.

Pilot was performing a landing to an airport grass runway that he was not familiar with. The aircraft touched down somewhere on the grass runway. The aircraft did not slow to a stop and ran past the over run, across a dirt road and into a ditch.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS PERFORMING A LANDING TO AN AIRPORT GRASS RUNWAY THAT HE WAS NOT FAMILIAR WITH. THE AIRCRAFT TOUCHED DOWN SOMEWHERE ON THE GRASS RUNWAY. THE AIRCRAFT DID NOT SLOW TO A STOP AND RAN PAST THE OVER RUN, ACROSS A DIRT ROAD AND INTO A DITCH.