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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cirrus Design SR20 · Fort Lauderdale, FL · March 22, 2015

Date
March 22, 2015 · 11:20 local
Place
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Airport
Fort Lauderdale Executive
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N433MJ
Reported as
Cirrus Design SR20
Reported engine
Continental IO-360 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
67 total3 in this make and model

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.

Aircraft was doing touch and go landings on runway 27 when on the second landing the aft portion of the nose wheel fairing detached from the aircraft. The tower notified the pilot, who made a routine landing. Airport operations personnel recovered the fairing and gave it to the pilot.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT WAS DOING TOUCH AND GO LANDINGS ON RUNWAY 27 WHEN ON THE SECOND LANDING THE AFT PORTION OF THE NOSE WHEEL FAIRING DETACHED FROM THE AIRCRAFT. THE TOWER NOTIFIED THE PILOT, WHO MADE A ROUTINE LANDING. AIRPORT OPERATIONS PERSONNEL RECOVERED THE FAIRING AND GAVE IT TO THE PILOT.