# Incident 20000426022339I: Cessna 140, Greenville, MI, April 26, 2000

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 26, 2000, 18:00 local time
- Place: Greenville, MI
- Airport: Greenville Municipal Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 43.1421° N, 85.2539° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at GREENVILLE MUNI (6D6), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=43.1421&lon=-85.2539&mi=10
- Aircraft: N2255V, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N2255V) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 140 (registry code 2071602, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-140) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-235 series (registry code 41505, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-235-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 140
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 220 total, 30 in this make and model, 60 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000426022339I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23)PILOT WAS PRACTICING LANDINGS AT (6D6), ON THIRD PILOT CLAIMED HE ENCOUNTERED A WIND GUST DURING FLARE AND THEN NOSED INTO THE RUNWAY HITTING THE PROP AND THE MAIN GEAR. THE PILOT STATED HIS INDICATED APPROACH SPEED WAS APPROX. 60.  THE AIRCRAFT BOUNCED AND THEN SETTLED TO THE RUNWAY.  DAMAGE WAS ONLY TO THE PROP, AND INTERNAL ENGINE INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS - AD FOR PROP STRIKE.  LEFT MAIN WHEEL BRAKE ROTOR ALSO CONTACED THE PAVEMENT WHEN THE GEAR FLEXED ON INITIAL IMPACT (MINOR SCRAPING ON ROTOR EDGE NOTED).  NO INTERNAL GEAR SUPPORT STRUCTURE DAMAGE WAS FOUND DURING INSPECTION.  THE AIRCRAFT WAS INSPECTED BY AN A&P, A SERVICEABLE PROP WAS INSTALLED, AND ON 4-27-00 THE AIRCRAFT WAS FERRIED TO LOWELL (24C) FOR REPAIRS.

## Other reports on N2255V (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 19781001030809I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19781001030809I), Oct 1, 1978: Cessna 140 (N2255V), La Grande, OR, Minor damage. Airplane was nosed up by a gust while taxiing in from landing.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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