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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Ebbinga William R VANS RV-9A · Smyrna, TN · February 26, 2016

Date
February 26, 2016 · 13:03 local
Place
Smyrna, TN
Airport
Smyrna
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N11BE
Reported as
Ebbinga William R Vans RV-9A
Reported engine
Lycoming IO-320 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot

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.

The above aircraft with pilot and one passenger landed at Smyrna Airport on 2/26/2016. Aircraft landed hard and did damage to nose landing gear. Nose gear did not collaspe but was damaged to the point aircraft could not taxi. Nose gear was placed on a wheeled dolly and towed to the ramp.

As the FAA filed it

THE ABOVE AIRCRAFT WITH PILOT AND ONE PASSENGER LANDED AT SMYRNA AIRPORT ON 2/26/2016. AIRCRAFT LANDED HARD AND DID DAMAGE TO NOSE LANDING GEAR. NOSE GEAR DID NOT COLLASPE BUT WAS DAMAGED TO THE POINT AIRCRAFT COULD NOT TAXI. NOSE GEAR WAS PLACED ON A WHEELED DOLLY AND TOWED TO THE RAMP.