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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172N · Marana, AZ · October 16, 2011

Date
October 16, 2011 · 08:55 local
Place
Marana, AZ
Airport
Tucson-Marana Regional
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N593TS
Reported as
Cessna 172N
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-320 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Student
Pilot’s flight hours
46 total46 in this make and model30 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.

On landing, a quartering tailwind gust caused the tail to lift causing the propeller tips to contact the runway. Visual inspection found no damage to nose gear and support assemblies. The propeller tips only slightly contacted the pavement causing slight deformation of the prop tips.

As the FAA filed it

ON LANDING, A QUARTERING TAILWIND GUST CAUSED THE TAIL TO LIFT CAUSING THE PROPELLER TIPS TO CONTACT THE RUNWAY.VISUAL INSPECTION FOUND NO DAMAGE TO NOSE GEAR AND SUPPORT ASSEMBLIES. THE PROPELLER TIPS ONLY SLIGHTLY CONTACTED THE PAVEMENT CAUSING SLIGHT DEFORMATION OF THE PROP TIPS.