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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172 · Lake Elsinore, CA · May 30, 1978

Date: May 30, 1978 · 10:00 local
Place: Lake Elsinore, CA
Airport: Skylark
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N50462
Reported as: Cessna 172
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 336 total48 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N50462Registered now · Cessna 172MS/N 17264202 · Built 1974 Airframe modelCessna 172M Engine modelLycoming 0-320 seriesReciprocating

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 bounced, pilot applied forward pressure and hit hard on nose wheel.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT BOUNCED, PILOT APPLIED FORWARD PRESSURE AND HIT HARD ON NOSE WHEEL.