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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Co-Z Development COZY MARK IV · Spring, TX · August 20, 2014

Date
August 20, 2014 · 07:15 local
Place
Spring, TX
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N14CZ
Reported as
Co-Z Development Cozy Mark IV
Reported engine
Lycoming O&VO-360 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Airline transport
Pilot’s flight hours
5,706 total26 in this make and model18 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 aircraft then inadvertently bumped landing gear switch down and nose impacted the runway. The aircraft slide for about 100 feet. There was some minor sheet metal damage to the belly of aircraft just forward of nose gear attachment.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED AIRCRAFT THEN INADVERTENTLY BUMPED LANDING GEAR SWITCH DOWN AND NOSE IMPACTED THE RUNWAY. THE AIRCRAFT SLIDE FOR ABOUT 100 FEET. THERE WAS SOME MINOR SHEET METAL DAMAGE TO THE BELLY OF AIRCRAFT JUST FORWARD OF NOSE GEAR ATTACHMENT.