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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172N · Elizabethton, TN · October 29, 2003

Date
October 29, 2003 · 17:38 local
Place
Elizabethton, TN
Airport
Elizabethton Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N737RC
Reported as
Cessna 172N
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
6,007 total4,000 in this make and model110 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 a soft field approach, aircraft landed to the right of the runway, striking a tire marking the runway side line. Tire bounced up and struck the horizontal stabilizer causing minor damage.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) DURING A SOFT FIELD APPROACH, AIRCRAFT LANDED TO THE RIGHT OF THE RUNWAY, STRIKING A TIRE MARKING THE RUNWAY SIDE LINE. TIRE BOUNCED UP AND STRUCK THE HORIZONTAL STABILIZER CAUSING MINOR DAMAGE.

Other reports on N737RC · 1

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