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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172F · Downers Grove, IL · August 8, 1981

Date: August 8, 1981 · 20:00 local
Place: Downers Grove, IL
Airport: Brookeridge
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N7978U
Reported as: Cessna 172F
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 475 total150 in this make and model51 in the last 90 days

N7978URegistered now · Cessna 172FS/N 17251978 · Built 1964 Airframe modelCessna 172F Engine modelContinental 0-300 seriesReciprocating

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.

Pilot landed aircraft short bounced onto runway. Nose high landing. Broke nose gear bent prop tips.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED AIRCRAFT SHORT BOUNCED ONTO RUNWAY. NOSE HIGH LANDING. BROKE NOSE GEAR BENT PROP TIPS.

Other reports on N7978U · 1

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