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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Diamon DA20-C1 · Smyrna, TN · August 28, 2003

Date
August 28, 2003 · 11:35 local
Place
Smyrna, TN
Airport
Smyrna
Phase of flight
Touch And Go Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N548DC
Reported as
Diamon DA20C1
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Student
Pilot’s flight hours
20 total20 in this make and model20 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) Student pilot on his first solo. On second touch and go, apparently over rotated and stalled. Made hard contact with the runway, striking the tail skid, wing tips, and prop and ground looped off the runway folding the right gear.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) STUDENT PILOT ON HIS FIRST SOLO. ON SECOND TOUCH AND GO, APPARENTLY OVER ROTATED AND STALLED. MADE HARD CONTACT WITH THE RUNWAY, STRIKING THE TAIL SKID, WING TIPS, AND PROP AND GROUND LOOPED OFF THE RUNWAY FOLDING THE RIGHT GEAR.