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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 120 · La Honda, CA · January 31, 2010

Date
January 31, 2010 · 14:35 local
Place
La Honda, CA
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2324N
Reported as
Cessna 120
Reported engine
Continental C85 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
640 total10 in this make and model14 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.

Pilot was conducting emergency landing practice in an open hay field. The field was softer than expected. The landing gear sank into the mud on landing roll out and the aircraft flipped over.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS CONDUCTING EMERGENCY LANDING PRACTICE IN AN OPEN HAY FIELD. THE FIELD WAS SOFTER THAN EXPECTED. THE LANDING GEAR SANK INTO THE MUD ON LANDING ROLL OUT AND THE AIRCRAFT FLIPPED OVER.