20000811029299I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172H · Yakutat, AK · August 11, 2000

Date
August 11, 2000 · 12:00 local
Place
Yakutat, AK
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3856R
Reported as
Cessna 172H
Reported engine
Continental O300*
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,100 total1,050 in this make and model100 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.

(-23)During taxi to a selected parking spot in the sandy beach, the nose wheel sunk into the soft sand and the propeller contacted the sand bending each propeller tip. Local tracking number:IAL05000010.

As the FAA filed it

(-23)DURING TAXI TO A SELECTED PARKING SPOT IN THE SANDY BEACH, THE NOSE WHEEL SUNK INTO THE SOFT SAND AND THE PROPELLER CONTACTED THE SAND BENDING EACH PROPELLER TIP. LOCAL TRACKING NUMBER:IAL05000010.