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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 177B · Charlottesville, VA · June 10, 1978

Date
June 10, 1978 · 12:35 local
Place
Charlottesville, VA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N18214
Reported as
Cessna 177B
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
300 total6 in this make and model0 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 made hard landing, porpoised, then stopped and taxied to the ramp. Had bent prop tips and the firewall.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT MADE HARD LANDING, PORPOISED, THEN STOPPED AND TAXIED TO THE RAMP. HAD BENT PROP TIPS AND THE FIREWALL.