20110415006769I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Diamond Aircraft Ind DA 40 · Morristown, NJ · April 15, 2011

Date
April 15, 2011 · 11:20 local
Place
Morristown, NJ
Airport
Morristown Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N104JA
Reported as
Diamond Aircraft Ind DA 40
Reported engine
Lycoming I0360 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
3,500 total700 in this make and model40 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.

The subject flight instructor stated the following, during landing after completing an instructional flight he was at the controls and encountered a crosswind during landing. Upon touchdown the left hand wing dipped and the wing tip and aileron contacted the runway. Damage to the aircraft was noted as follows, the left hand wing tip lower surface had scrape marks and the static wick was ground down and missing. The left hand aileron lower outboard surface was damaged and the composite material was ground down through to the upper surface.

As the FAA filed it

THE SUBJECT FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR STATED THE FOLLOWING, DURING LANDING AFTER COMPLETING AN INSTRUCTIONAL FLIGHT HE WAS AT THE CONTROLS AND ENCOUNTERED A CROSSWIND DURING LANDING. UPON TOUCHDOWN THE LEFT HAND WING DIPPED AND THE WING TIP AND AILERON CONTACTED THE RUNWAY. DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT WAS NOTED AS FOLLOWS, THE LEFT HAND WING TIP LOWER SURFACE HAD SCRAPE MARKS AND THE STATIC WICK WAS GROUND DOWN AND MISSING. THE LEFT HAND AILERON LOWER OUTBOARD SURFACE WAS DAMAGED AND THE COMPOSITE MATERIAL WAS GROUND DOWN THROUGH TO THE UPPER SURFACE.

Other reports on N104JA · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.