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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-140 · Huntsville, AL · April 27, 1996

Date
April 27, 1996 · 10:00 local
Place
Huntsville, AL
Airport
Moontown Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N7127R
Reported as
Piper PA28140
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
41 total41 in this make and model3 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.

Narrative: the student pilot, donna bundrick, DD15477643, on final for landing was distracted by glider activity, landed hard, bounced and porpoised resulting in a pro strike that broke the engine mounts. Engine and propeller replaced.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: THE STUDENT PILOT, DONNA BUNDRICK, DD15477643, ON FINAL FOR LANDING WAS DISTRACTED BY GLIDER ACTIVITY, LANDED HARD, BOUNCED AND PORPOISED RESULTING IN A PRO STRIKE THAT BROKE THE ENGINE MOUNTS. ENGINE AND PROPELLER REPLACED.