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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-140 · Selinsgrove, PA · October 6, 1980

Date
October 6, 1980 · 10:30 local
Place
Selinsgrove, PA
Airport
Penn Valley
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N44524
Reported as
Piper PA28140
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,900 total330 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 was instructed to add power but pulled back on yoke. Instructor added power but aircraft landed hard.

As the FAA filed it

STUDENT WAS INSTRUCTED TO ADD POWER BUT PULLED BACK ON YOKE. INSTRUCTOR ADDED POWER BUT AIRCRAFT LANDED HARD.