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Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Piper PA-18-135 · Twin Falls, ID · July 1, 2015

Date
July 1, 2015 · 21:15 local
Place
Twin Falls, ID
Phase of flight
Cruise/Level Flight
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N8086C
Reported as
Piper PA-18-135
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-290 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
1
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, flight instructor, private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
950 total20 in this make and model300 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.

Due to fuel depletion the pilot performed an emergency landing in a cornfield 4 miles north of the Twin Falls airport and substantially damaged the right wing and left main landing gear.

As the FAA filed it

DUE TO FUEL DEPLETION THE PILOT PERFORMED AN EMERGENCY LANDING IN A CORNFIELD 4 MILES NORTH OF THE TWIN FALLS AIRPORT AND SUBSTANTIALLY DAMAGED THE RIGHT WING AND LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR.

Other reports on N8086C · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.