20141026021839I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Witzler James A PRECEPTOR SUPER PUP · Columbia, SC · October 26, 2014

Date
October 26, 2014 · 16:00 local
Place
Columbia, SC
Airport
Jim Hamilton - L.B. Owens
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N484W
Reported as
Witzler James A Preceptor Super PUP
Reported engine
Amateur-built UNKNOWN ENG
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
3,000 total2 in this make and model25 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 had a hard landing at kcub on runway 31 resulting in the left main wheel collapsing and the aircraft departing the left side of the runway into a grassy area.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT HAD A HARD LANDING AT KCUB ON RUNWAY 31 RESULTING IN THE LEFT MAIN WHEEL COLLAPSING AND THE AIRCRAFT DEPARTING THE LEFT SIDE OF THE RUNWAY INTO A GRASSY AREA.