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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-140 · Bloomsburg, PA · August 26, 1978

Date
August 26, 1978 · 17:10 local
Place
Bloomsburg, PA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N15726
Reported as
Piper PA28140
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
74 total74 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 on cross country solo flight, landed hard causing collapse of nose gear.

As the FAA filed it

STUDENT ON CROSS COUNTRY SOLO FLIGHT, LANDED HARD CAUSING COLLAPSE OF NOSE GEAR.