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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172N · Palo Alto, CA · March 17, 2013

Date
March 17, 2013 · 13:17 local
Place
Palo Alto, CA
Airport
Palo Alto Airport Of Santa Clara
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N733ZK
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
37 total37 in this make and model17 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.

Aircraft N733ZK landed on the runway at Palo Alto airport on March 17, 2013. The student pilot went off the runway and hit a sign, damaging the sign and the left main landing gear fairing.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT N733ZK LANDED ON THE RUNWAY AT PALO ALTO AIRPORT ON MARCH 17, 2013. THE STUDENT PILOT WENT OFF THE RUNWAY AND HIT A SIGN, DAMAGING THE SIGN AND THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR FAIRING.