19790511026449I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172M · Long Beach, CA · May 11, 1979

Date
May 11, 1979 · 15:30 local
Place
Long Beach, CA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N73302
Reported as
Cessna 172M
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
40 total26 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 encountered turbulence on touchdown and bounced. Damaged nose wheel fork, fire wall and prop.

As the FAA filed it

STUDENT ENCOUNTERED TURBULENCE ON TOUCHDOWN AND BOUNCED. DAMAGED NOSE WHEEL FORK, FIRE WALL AND PROP.