20040808034069I

Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Diamon DA20-C1 · Smyrna, TN · August 8, 2004

Date
August 8, 2004 · 15:10 local
Place
Smyrna, TN
Airport
Smyrna
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N223NH
Reported as
Diamon DA20C1
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
92 total85 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) Aircraft landed hard on nose wheel, nose wheel strut broke, allowing propeller to strike the runway.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) AIRCRAFT LANDED HARD ON NOSE WHEEL, NOSE WHEEL STRUT BROKE, ALLOWING PROPELLER TO STRIKE THE RUNWAY.