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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Valor A-22 LS · Tybee Island, GA · April 22, 2011

Date
April 22, 2011 · 11:30 local
Place
Tybee Island, GA
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N456DK
Reported as
Valor A-22 LS
Reported engine
ROTAX 912ULS
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
1,349 total183 in this make and model197 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 pilot attempted to demonstrate a soft field landing when the landing gear sunk into the sand causing a prop strike and the left wing to contact the ground. Damage to all three prop blades and wrinkling occurred to the trailing edge of the left wing and left aileron.

As the FAA filed it

THE PILOT ATTEMPTED TO DEMONSTRATE A SOFT FIELD LANDING WHEN THE LANDING GEAR SUNK INTO THE SAND CAUSING A PROP STRIKE AND THE LEFT WING TO CONTACT THE GROUND. DAMAGE TO ALL THREE PROP BLADES AND WRINKLING OCCURRED TO THE TRAILING EDGE OF THE LEFT WING AND LEFT AILERON.