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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-38-112 · El Paso, TX · July 8, 1989

Date
July 8, 1989 · 14:33 local
Place
El Paso, TX
Airport
El Paso International
Phase of flight
Touch And Go Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N24402
Reported as
Piper PA38112
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
240 total0 in this make and model20 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.

Flared the airplane too high. Hard landing and bounced. Broke the nose wheel and damaged the propeller.

As the FAA filed it

FLARED THE AIRPLANE TOO HIGH. HARD LANDING AND BOUNCED. BROKE THE NOSE WHEEL AND DAMAGED THE PROPELLER.