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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Beech E33A · Morristown, NJ · April 27, 1988

Date
April 27, 1988 · 16:05 local
Place
Morristown, NJ
Airport
Morristown Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N72045
Reported as
Beech E33A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
700 total600 in this make and model30 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.

Bounced and porpoised on landing until the nose gear collapsed from impacts with the runway.

As the FAA filed it

BOUNCED AND PORPOISED ON LANDING UNTIL THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED FROM IMPACTS WITH THE RUNWAY.