19780715044049I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 23BEECH · Santa Ynez, CA · July 15, 1978

Date
July 15, 1978 · 13:20 local
Place
Santa Ynez, CA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9770L
Reported as
Beech 23BEECH
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
21 total21 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.

Student pilot porpoised on first landing attempt. Crashed on the second try.

As the FAA filed it

STUDENT PILOT PORPOISED ON FIRST LANDING ATTEMPT. CRASHED ON THE SECOND TRY.