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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 152 · Palo Alto, CA · July 20, 1981

Date
July 20, 1981 · 16:43 local
Place
Palo Alto, CA
Airport
Palo
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6525H
Reported as
Cessna 152
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
16 total16 in this make and model16 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.

The student pilot made a hard landing collapsing the nose gear.

As the FAA filed it

THE STUDENT PILOT MADE A HARD LANDING COLLAPSING THE NOSE GEAR.