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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Gulstm AA5A · Winter Haven, FL · April 19, 1987

Date
April 19, 1987 · 12:45 local
Place
Winter Haven, FL
Airport
Gilbert
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5454L
Reported as
Gulstm AA5A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
230 total35 in this make and model13 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 aircraft landed hard damaging prop and nose gear. Pilot reported his briefcase caught in the yoke during flare

As the FAA filed it

THE AIRCRAFT LANDED HARD DAMAGING PROP AND NOSE GEAR. PILOT REPORTED HIS BRIEFCASE CAUGHT IN THE YOKE DURING FLARE