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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-18-150 · Mc Grath, AK · August 10, 2013

Date
August 10, 2013 · 17:45 local
Place
Mc Grath, AK
Airport
Farewell Strip
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N82736
Reported as
Piper PA-18-150
Reported engine
Lycoming O-320 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
535 total508 in this make and model50 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.

Pilot landed on gravel runway and the aircraft bounced then pitched nose down striking the propeller. The pilot pulled the control stick full aft and added power to regain pitch up attitude then reduced power and landed. The aircraft did not flip over. No injuries.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED ON GRAVEL RUNWAY AND THE AIRCRAFT BOUNCED THEN PITCHED NOSE DOWN STRIKING THE PROPELLER. THE PILOT PULLED THE CONTROL STICK FULL AFT AND ADDED POWER TO REGAIN PITCH UP ATTITUDE THEN REDUCED POWER AND LANDED. THE AIRCRAFT DID NOT FLIP OVER. NO INJURIES.