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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Marv Vanderpool ZENITH STOL CH 750 · Taft, CA · May 4, 2016

Date
May 4, 2016 · 18:00 local
Place
Taft, CA
Airport
Taft-Kern
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N750MV
Reported as
Marv Vanderpool Zenith Stol CH 750
Reported engine
Continental IO-240 series
People aboard
1
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.

While on approach to rwy 25 at L17, pilot reported the aircraft engine lost power appoximately 50 above runway leading to a hard landing and collapsing nose landing gear strut.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE ON APPROACH TO RWY 25 AT L17, PILOT REPORTED THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE LOST POWER APPOXIMATELY 50 ABOVE RUNWAY LEADING TO A HARD LANDING AND COLLAPSING NOSE LANDING GEAR STRUT.