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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Luscombe 8E · Halifax County, VA · March 22, 2015

Date
March 22, 2015 · 11:46 local
Place
Halifax County, VA
Airport
Fox Fire Airport
Phase of flight
Cruise/Level Flight
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N1929K
Reported as
Luscombe 8E
Reported engine
Continental C85 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
700 total45 in this make and model2 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.

A/c made an emergency landing in open pasture when the engine cowling came open in flight. The a/c's tail came up while landing and caused it to flip over in the pasture.

As the FAA filed it

A/C MADE AN EMERGENCY LANDING IN OPEN PASTURE WHEN THE ENGINE COWLING CAME OPEN IN FLIGHT. THE A/C'S TAIL CAME UP WHILE LANDING AND CAUSED IT TO FLIP OVER IN THE PASTURE.