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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna TU206G · Shearer, ID · July 13, 2003

Date
July 13, 2003 · 17:30 local
Place
Shearer, ID
Airport
Shearer Usfs/Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
INMA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4887U
Reported as
Cessna TU206G
People aboard
5
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
16,000 total5,000 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.

(-23) On short final approach for runway 18 at Shearer the pilot encountered an unexpected sink rate caused by turbulence/windshear. The aircraft touched down hard on the left main landing gear and the left wing-tip scraped the ground.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) ON SHORT FINAL APPROACH FOR RUNWAY 18 AT SHEARER THE PILOT ENCOUNTERED AN UNEXPECTED SINK RATE CAUSED BY TURBULENCE/WINDSHEAR. THE AIRCRAFT TOUCHED DOWN HARD ON THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR AND THE LEFT WING-TIP SCRAPED THE GROUND.