ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 297207
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| Date: | Monday 3 June 2002 |
| Time: | 16:00 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-18A-150 |
| Owner/operator: | Barbara's Banners |
| Registration: | N8680D |
| MSN: | 18-6284 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1958 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 9278 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-360/L2A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Thomaston, Georgia -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Griffin, GA (8GA6) |
| Thomaston Upson County Airport, GA (KOPN) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A Piper ground-looped during a landing at a private airport in Thomaston, Georgia. The airplane ground-looped, and the left wing struck the ground. The pilot continued the flight and returned to Griffin. During the post-flight examination of the airplane, the pilot discovered that the left wing assembly had sustained structural damage.
Probable Cause: Failure of the pilot-in-command to maintain directional control on landing, resulting in an inadvertent ground loop.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ATL02LA117
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 8 June 2005 | N8680D | 0 | Griffin, Georgia | |
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Revision history:
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| 14-Oct-2022 15:45 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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