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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Rans Designs S-7LS · Joplin, MO · March 6, 2021

Date
March 6, 2021 · 14:20 local
Place
Joplin, MO
Airport
Joplin Regional
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N544RS
Reported as
Rans Designs S-7LS
Reported engine
ROTAX 912ULS series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
156 total29 in this make and model11 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.

Pilot stated that after main gear touchdown, a wind gust from the left started to push the airplane to the right, upon correction the plane started to oscillate left and right scraping the wingtip and coming to rest in the grass between the runway and the taxiway.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT STATED THAT AFTER MAIN GEAR TOUCHDOWN, A WIND GUST FROM THE LEFT STARTED TO PUSH THE AIRPLANE TO THE RIGHT, UPON CORRECTION THE PLANE STARTED TO OSCILLATE LEFT AND RIGHT SCRAPING THE WINGTIP AND COMING TO REST IN THE GRASS BETWEEN THE RUNWAY AND THE TAXIWAY.

Other reports on N544RS · 2

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