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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Earths GULL 2000 · Arlington, WA · August 3, 2008

Date
August 3, 2008 · 14:40 local
Place
Arlington, WA
Airport
Arlington Municipal
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N302TM
Reported as
Earths GULL2000
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Student
Pilot’s flight hours
300 total30 in this make and model10 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) PIC had taken off and had climbed to an altitude of about 20 to 25 feet when a down draft or a windshear forced the aircraft to the ground. The hard landing caused damage to the left wingtip, right main gear and wheel, nose gear, nose of aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) PIC HAD TAKEN OFF AND HAD CLIMBED TO AN ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 20 TO 25 FEET WHEN A DOWN DRAFT OR A WINDSHEAR FORCED THE AIRCRAFT TO THE GROUND. THE HARD LANDING CAUSED DAMAGE TO THE LEFT WINGTIP, RIGHT MAIN GEAR AND WHEEL, NOSE GEAR, NOSE OF AIRCRAFT.