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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172S · Bristol, NH · May 11, 2011

Date
May 11, 2011 · 16:00 local
Place
Bristol, NH
Airport
Newfound Valley
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N11682
Reported as
Cessna 172S
Reported engine
Lycoming IO-360-L2A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
50 total8 in this make and model

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.

privacy data omitted Touched down on landing, bounced and touched down again. Damage was found to the firewall of the aircraft after inspection. This event was at first classified as an accident upon further investigation by the NTSB, it was recommended this be downgraded to an incident.

As the FAA filed it

^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ TOUCHED DOWN ON LANDING, BOUNCED AND TOUCHED DOWN AGAIN. DAMAGE WAS FOUND TO THE FIREWALL OF THE AIRCRAFT AFTER INSPECTION.THIS EVENT WAS AT FIRST CLASSIFIED AS AN ACCIDENT UPON FURTHER INVESTIGATION BY THE NTSB, IT WAS RECOMMENDED THIS BE DOWNGRADED TO AN INCIDENT.