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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 177B · Pottstown, PA · August 20, 2010

Date
August 20, 2010 · 10:00 local
Place
Pottstown, PA
Airport
Pottstown
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N19762
Reported as
Cessna 177B
Reported engine
Lycoming O&VO-360 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
60 total6 in this make and model6 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 attempted landing and bounced the aircraft. He was not able to recover from the bounce and struck the nose gear and propeller on the surface of the hard surface runway.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT ATTEMPTED LANDING AND BOUNCED THE AIRCRAFT. HE WAS NOT ABLE TO RECOVER FROM THE BOUNCE AND STRUCK THE NOSE GEAR AND PROPELLER ON THE SURFACE OF THE HARD SURFACE RUNWAY.