19980113002009I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Diamon DA20-A1 · Palo Alto, CA · January 13, 1998

Date
January 13, 1998 · 16:30 local
Place
Palo Alto, CA
Airport
Palo Alto Airport-Santa Clara Cou
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N104KS
Reported as
Diamon DA20A1
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
450 total5 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.

Narrative: on touchdown the nose of the aircraft came up. The pilot over reacted and pushed the stick forward hard, causing the nose to strike the runway too hard and sheared the nose wheel off at the strut attach point. Copy of this report furnished to operations unit.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: ON TOUCHDOWN THE NOSE OF THE AIRCRAFT CAME UP. THE PILOT OVER REACTED AND PUSHED THE STICK FORWARD HARD, CAUSING THE NOSE TO STRIKE THE RUNWAY TOO HARD AND SHEARED THE NOSE WHEEL OFF AT THE STRUT ATTACH POINT. COPY OF THIS REPORT FURNISHED TO OPERATIONS UNIT.