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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Gulstm AA-5B · Saint George, UT · May 8, 1990

Date
May 8, 1990 · 12:00 local
Place
Saint George, UT
Airport
Saint George Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N74618
Reported as
Gulstm AA5B
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
118 total40 in this make and model10 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.

Made a hard landing. Porpoised and nose gear collapsed and prop struck runway. Hit by wind gust prior to landing.

As the FAA filed it

MADE A HARD LANDING. PORPOISED AND NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED AND PROP STRUCK RUNWAY. HIT BY WIND GUST PRIOR TO LANDING.