19810120012499I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 150M · Hawthorne, CA · January 20, 1981

Date
January 20, 1981 · 11:20 local
Place
Hawthorne, CA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N704RT
Reported as
Cessna 150M
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
59 total56 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.

Hard landing due to improper level off caused a bounce and aircraft dropped in.

As the FAA filed it

HARD LANDING DUE TO IMPROPER LEVEL OFF CAUSED A BOUNCE AND AIRCRAFT DROPPED IN.