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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Shetterly Gregory W SHETTERLY DR-107 · New Century, KS · March 30, 2014

Date
March 30, 2014 · 09:30 local
Place
New Century, KS
Airport
New Century
Phase of flight
Maneuver
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N372GM
Reported as
Shetterly Gregory W Shetterly DR-107
Reported engine
Lycoming O-320-E2D
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Airline transport, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
18,500 total283 in this make and model18 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.

During a practice aerobatic manuevering flight, the left skirt which was attached to the left side of the canopy, disengaged from the latch pin allowing the slip stream to get under the canopy. The force of the slip stream raised the left side of the canopy resulting in the canopy breaking and departing the aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

DURING A PRACTICE AEROBATIC MANUEVERING FLIGHT, THE LEFT SKIRT WHICH WAS ATTACHED TO THE LEFT SIDE OF THE CANOPY, DISENGAGED FROM THE LATCH PIN ALLOWING THE SLIP STREAM TO GET UNDER THE CANOPY. THE FORCE OF THE SLIP STREAM RAISED THE LEFT SIDE OF THE CANOPY RESULTING IN THE CANOPY BREAKING AND DEPARTING THE AIRCRAFT.