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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech F33A · Griffin, GA · June 13, 2011

Date
June 13, 2011 · 07:55 local
Place
Griffin, GA
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N30797
Reported as
Beech F33A
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Commercial pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
1,585 total278 in this make and model2 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.

Touchdown was longer than normal and aircraft bounced about five to ten feet in the air than came down on the nose gear resulting in the lower leg of nose gear strut breaking off causing the propeller to strike the runway.

As the FAA filed it

TOUCHDOWN WAS LONGER THAN NORMAL AND AIRCRAFT BOUNCED ABOUT FIVE TO TEN FEET IN THE AIR THAN CAME DOWN ON THE NOSE GEAR RESULTING IN THE LOWER LEG OF NOSE GEAR STRUT BREAKING OFF CAUSING THE PROPELLER TO STRIKE THE RUNWAY.