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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 140A · Vero Beach, FL · August 22, 2004

Date
August 22, 2004 · 14:38 local
Place
Vero Beach, FL
Airport
Vero Beach Municipal
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9451A
Reported as
Cessna 140A
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,300 total100 in this make and model100 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) After landing on rollout the instructor applied pedal to correct an uncommanded drift to the right of the runway. Initial pedal input did not correct the drift. Instructor used full pedal and aircraft spun to the left damaging the left side landing gear. Student may have had his feet on the pedals causing the initial drift.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) AFTER LANDING ON ROLLOUT THE INSTRUCTOR APPLIED PEDAL TO CORRECT AN UNCOMMANDED DRIFT TO THE RIGHT OF THE RUNWAY. INITIAL PEDAL INPUT DID NOT CORRECT THE DRIFT. INSTRUCTOR USED FULL PEDAL AND AIRCRAFT SPUN TO THE LEFT DAMAGING THE LEFT SIDE LANDING GEAR. STUDENT MAY HAVE HAD HIS FEET ON THE PEDALS CAUSING THE INITIAL DRIFT.