20150121000659I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Flightstar 2-SC · Grantham, NC · January 21, 2015

Date
January 21, 2015 · 17:33 local
Place
Grantham, NC
Airport
Cox-Grantham Airfield
Phase of flight
Cruise/Level Flight
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2492F
Reported as
Flightstar 2-SC
Reported engine
ROTAX UL670BH14
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
476 total180 in this make and model40 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.

Approximately 5 miles from Cox-Grantham Airfield engine quit running. Pilot performed an emergency landing in a soft field causing damage to the nose and right main landing gear.

As the FAA filed it

APPROXIMATELY 5 MILES FROM COX-GRANTHAM AIRFIELD ENGINE QUIT RUNNING. PILOT PERFORMED AN EMERGENCY LANDING IN A SOFT FIELD CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE NOSE AND RIGHT MAIN LANDING GEAR.