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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 152 · Atwater, CA · July 17, 2007

Date
July 17, 2007 · 20:36 local
Place
Atwater, CA
Airport
Castle
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N757XY
Reported as
Cessna 152
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Student
Pilot’s flight hours
32 total32 in this make and model32 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) 1St solo flight for student pilot. Hard landing with porpoising caused nose wheel to separate from the gear.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) 1ST SOLO FLIGHT FOR STUDENT PILOT. HARD LANDING WITH PORPOISING CAUSED NOSE WHEEL TO SEPARATE FROM THE GEAR.