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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Staton Rocker T III XENOS MOTORGLIDER · Fort Meade, MD · July 13, 2019

Date
July 13, 2019 · 16:10 local
Place
Fort Meade, MD
Airport
Tipton
Phase of flight
Climb
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N32XS
Reported as
Staton Rocker T III Xenos Motorglider
Reported engine
Amateur-built UNKNOWN ENG
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
269 total30 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.

Aircraft took off on runway 28 at Tipton Airport (fme). During climb, the canopy of the aircraft cracked, pilot landed the aircraft back on runway 28, upon landing the right main wheel broke off the strut and the prop hit the ground.

Weather from weather underground:

Temp: 82F, dew point: 66F, humidity: 58%, wind: wnw, wind speed: 5, wind gust: 0, pressure: 29.8, precip: 0.00

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT TOOK OFF ON RUNWAY 28 AT TIPTON AIRPORT (FME). DURING CLIMB, THE CANOPY OF THE AIRCRAFT CRACKED, PILOT LANDED THE AIRCRAFT BACK ON RUNWAY 28, UPON LANDING THE RIGHT MAIN WHEEL BROKE OFF THE STRUT AND THE PROP HIT THE GROUND.

WEATHER FROM WEATHER UNDERGROUND:

TEMP: 82F, DEW POINT: 66F, HUMIDITY: 58%, WIND: WNW, WIND SPEED: 5, WIND GUST: 0, PRESSURE: 29.8, PRECIP: 0.00