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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172 · Minneapolis, MN · June 25, 1997

Date
June 25, 1997 · 11:00 local
Place
Minneapolis, MN
Airport
Anoka County-Blaine Airport
Phase of flight
Touch And Go Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6770A
Reported as
Cessna 172
Reported engine
Lycoming O360A1A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,160 total50 in this make and model2 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: airman lost directional control on landing. Looked down at flap lever-crosswind conditions existed. Left wing and prop hit runway. privacy data omitted Airman lost control of aircraft on landing. Basic postlanding procedures not followed. Airman reached to retract flaps while just touching down. Looked inside cockpit and lost control.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: AIRMAN LOST DIRECTIONAL CONTROL ON LANDING. LOOKED DOWN AT FLAP LEVER-CROSSWIND CONDITIONS EXISTED. LEFT WING AND PROP HIT RUNWAY. ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ AIRMAN LOST CONTROL OF AIRCRAFT ON LANDING. BASIC POSTLANDING PROCEDURES NOT FOLLOWED. AIRMAN REACHED TO RETRACT FLAPS WHILE JUST TOUCHING DOWN. LOOKED INSIDE COCKPIT AND LOST CONTROL.