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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Ward Tom A20 VISTA CRUISER SC · Animas, CO · August 8, 2018

Date
August 8, 2018 · 19:00 local
Place
Animas, CO
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9049K
Reported as
Ward Tom A20 Vista Cruiser SC
Reported engine
ROTAX SEE BOMBADIER
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Airline transport, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
18,000 total3 in this make and model3 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.

PIC was landing/practicing with different flap settings. Landed and drifted left, applied full right rudder, added power for rudder effectiveness and then needed full left rudder. Started braking to stop and exited the runway.

As the FAA filed it

PIC WAS LANDING/PRACTICING WITH DIFFERENT FLAP SETTINGS. LANDED AND DRIFTED LEFT, APPLIED FULL RIGHT RUDDER, ADDED POWER FOR RUDDER EFFECTIVENESS AND THEN NEEDED FULL LEFT RUDDER. STARTED BRAKING TO STOP AND EXITED THE RUNWAY.