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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172N · Marana, AZ · March 23, 2004

Date: March 23, 2004 · 17:17 local
Place: Marana, AZ
Airport: Marana Northwest Regnl Airport
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N858ER
Reported as: Cessna 172N
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s certificate: Student
Pilot’s flight hours: 86 total86 in this make and model30 in the last 90 days

N858ERRegistered now · Cessna 172NS/N 172-73347 Airframe modelCessna 172N

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) Pilot stated that following landing with a quartering tail wind of approximately 5 to 10 knots the plane was hit by a small quartering gust from the left rear causing the plane to rock up to the right front resulting in a prop strike. Pilot stated that after receiving the winds prior to landing he planned on landing into the wind but other aircraft were already established in the pattern landing down wind so he elected to do the same.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) PILOT STATED THAT FOLLOWING LANDING WITH A QUARTERING TAIL WIND OF APPROXIMATELY 5 TO 10 KNOTS THE PLANE WAS HIT BY A SMALL QUARTERING GUST FROM THE LEFT REAR CAUSING THE PLANE TO ROCK UP TO THE RIGHT FRONT RESULTING IN A PROP STRIKE. PILOT STATED THAT AFTER RECEIVING THE WINDS PRIOR TO LANDING HE PLANNED ON LANDING INTO THE WIND BUT OTHER AIRCRAFT WERE ALREADY ESTABLISHED IN THE PATTERN LANDING DOWN WIND SO HE ELECTED TO DO THE SAME.