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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 180 · Truckee, CA · May 8, 2012

Date
May 8, 2012 · 11:17 local
Place
Truckee, CA
Airport
Truckee/Tahoe Airport
Phase of flight
Other, Specify
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N1677C
Reported as
Cessna 180
Reported engine
Continental O-470 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
1,670 total730 in this make and model60 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.

During tail-up taxi practice, a wind gust caused the aircraft to nose over damaging the aircraft engine, propeller, firewall and right wing.

As the FAA filed it

DURING TAIL-UP TAXI PRACTICE, A WIND GUST CAUSED THE AIRCRAFT TO NOSE OVER DAMAGING THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE, PROPELLER, FIREWALL AND RIGHT WING.

Other reports on N1677C · 1

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