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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28R-180 · Hanson, MA · April 20, 2014

Date
April 20, 2014 · 09:00 local
Place
Hanson, MA
Airport
Cranland Airport
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N28NC
Reported as
Piper PA-28R-180
Reported engine
Lycoming I0360 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
598 total22 in this make and model1 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 touchdown the aircraft landed hard on the nose landing gear, bending the wheel axle to the left side and causing one blade of the two-bladed propeller to strike the asphalt. There were no injuries to the single-occupant pilot.

As the FAA filed it

DURING TOUCHDOWN THE AIRCRAFT LANDED HARD ON THE NOSE LANDING GEAR, BENDING THE WHEEL AXLE TO THE LEFT SIDE AND CAUSING ONE BLADE OF THE TWO-BLADED PROPELLER TO STRIKE THE ASPHALT. THERE WERE NO INJURIES TO THE SINGLE-OCCUPANT PILOT.