# Incident 20010530016299I: Cessna 172P, South St Paul, MN, May 30, 2001

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 30, 2001, 14:12 local time
- Place: South St Paul, MN
- Airport: South St Paul Municipal Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 44.8880° N, 93.0405° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of South St. Paul, MN, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=44.8880&lon=-93.0405&mi=10
- Aircraft: N62218, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N62218) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 172P (registry code 2072436, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172p) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172P
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Student
- Pilot flight hours: 79 total, 15 in this make and model, 15 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20010530016299I

## Narrative

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

(-23) PILOT WAS ON SUPERVISED SOLO, CALM WIND, CONDUCTING TOUCH AND GO LANDINGS. PILOT LEVELED HIGH OVER RUNWAY, PITCHED OVER AND ENCOUNTERED GROUND STRIKE OF PROPELLER AND TAIL TIE-DOWN RING - THEN CAME TO FULL STOP ON RUNWAY. NO INJURIES AND MINOR DAMAGE TO AIRCRAFT, LIMITED TO PROP AND TAIL-TIEDOWN ONLY.  PILOT SENT NO-SOLO LETTER ON 6-1-2001 AND PILOT HAS SINCE RECEIVED 4.4 HOURS OF ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTION FROM THE SCHOOL CHIEF INSTRUCTOR/PILOT EXAMINER.

## Other reports on N62218 (2)

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

- [Incident 19910405038229I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19910405038229I), Apr 5, 1991: Cessna 172P (N62218), St Paul, MN, Minor damage. Student pilot made a hard landing. Propeller was bent.
- [Accident 19880406008249A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19880406008249A), Apr 6, 1988: Cessna 172P (N62218), Sauk Center, MN, Destroyed. Engine quit en route. Crash landed on a frozen lake. Found large amount of water in fuel and a fuel cap not secured

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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