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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-180 · Petersburg, VA · December 18, 2011

Date
December 18, 2011 · 09:15 local
Place
Petersburg, VA
Airport
Dinwiddie County Airport
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7765W
Reported as
Piper PA-28-180
Reported engine
Lycoming O&VO-360 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
1
Pilot’s certificate
Student
Pilot’s flight hours
21 total21 in this make and model6 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 airman has just departed the airport for his first solo flight. After completion of the first touch and go, he was attempting the second landing when the aircraft touched down on the runway and became airborne again. The pilot pushed the nose over and struck the runway in a nose low attitude and collapsed the nose gear and struck the prop.

As the FAA filed it

THE AIRMAN HAS JUST DEPARTED THE AIRPORT FOR HIS FIRST SOLO FLIGHT. AFTER COMPLETION OF THE FIRST TOUCH AND GO, HE WAS ATTEMPTING THE SECOND LANDING WHEN THE AIRCRAFT TOUCHED DOWN ON THE RUNWAY AND BECAME AIRBORNE AGAIN. THE PILOT PUSHED THE NOSE OVER AND STRUCK THE RUNWAY IN A NOSE LOW ATTITUDE AND COLLAPSED THE NOSE GEAR AND STRUCK THE PROP.

Other reports on N7765W · 1

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