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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Metcalf John William JR SKYBOLT · Lakeland, FL · April 4, 2014

Date
April 4, 2014 · 08:00 local
Place
Lakeland, FL
Airport
Lakeland
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N49JM
Reported as
Metcalf John William JR Skybolt
Reported engine
Lycoming IO-540 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
2,000 total100 in this make and model4 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 lost control during landing on runway 09R, airraft landed hard on l/h landing gear and wing tip made contact with runway. Aircraft tipped forward causing prop to strike pavement and l/h MLG collapsed.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LOST CONTROL DURING LANDING ON RUNWAY 09R, AIRRAFT LANDED HARD ON L/H LANDING GEAR AND WING TIP MADE CONTACT WITH RUNWAY. AIRCRAFT TIPPED FORWARD CAUSING PROP TO STRIKE PAVEMENT AND L/H MLG COLLAPSED.