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Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Parker Toby W HIGHLANDER · Burns, OR · September 13, 2017

Date
September 13, 2017 · 12:15 local
Place
Burns, OR
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N318RP
Reported as
Parker Toby W Highlander
Reported engine
ROTAX 912ULS
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
1,500 total1,075 in this make and model1 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.

Airman was attempting to land on a dry lake bed and struck sage brush with the right landing gear. This caused loss of controll and the right wing impacted the ground causing substansial damage.

As the FAA filed it

AIRMAN WAS ATTEMPTING TO LAND ON A DRY LAKE BED AND STRUCK SAGE BRUSH WITH THE RIGHT LANDING GEAR. THIS CAUSED LOSS OF CONTROLL AND THE RIGHT WING IMPACTED THE GROUND CAUSING SUBSTANSIAL DAMAGE.