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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-18-150 · Coldfoot, AK · August 21, 2002

Date
August 21, 2002 · 09:14 local
Place
Coldfoot, AK
Airport
Coldfoot Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N54741
Reported as
Piper PA18150
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
14,000 total

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)privacy data omitted on short final approach the aircraft developed a high sink rate which the pilot was unable to arrest, resulting in hard landing with minor damage to the landing gear. Pilot counseled to be more attentive to rate of descent particularily in training scenarios.

As the FAA filed it

(-23)^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ ON SHORT FINAL APPROACH THE AIRCRAFT DEVELOPED A HIGH SINK RATE WHICH THE PILOT WAS UNABLE TO ARREST, RESULTING IN HARD LANDING WITH MINOR DAMAGE TO THE LANDING GEAR. PILOT COUNSELED TO BE MORE ATTENTIVE TO RATE OF DESCENT PARTICULARILY IN TRAINING SCENARIOS.