20050927023299I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-181 · Tooele, UT · September 27, 2005

Date
September 27, 2005 · 10:10 local
Place
Tooele, UT
Airport
Bolinder Field-Tooele Valley
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N964WC
Reported as
Piper PA28181
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Student
Pilot’s flight hours
36 total36 in this make and model12 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 first solo flight in calm wind conditions appeared to touch down slightly fast. The aircraft bounced back into the air, touched down again in an uncoordinated manner and ran off the left side of the runway. The right wing tip, nose gear and propeller were damaged as the aircraft skidded sideways off the runway.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) STUDENT PILOT ON FIRST SOLO FLIGHT IN CALM WIND CONDITIONS APPEARED TO TOUCH DOWN SLIGHTLY FAST. THE AIRCRAFT BOUNCED BACK INTO THE AIR, TOUCHED DOWN AGAIN IN AN UNCOORDINATED MANNER AND RAN OFF THE LEFT SIDE OF THE RUNWAY. THE RIGHT WING TIP, NOSE GEAR AND PROPELLER WERE DAMAGED AS THE AIRCRAFT SKIDDED SIDEWAYS OFF THE RUNWAY.