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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Flight Design CTSW · Shreveport, LA · September 12, 2016

Date: September 12, 2016 · 12:30 local
Place: Shreveport, LA
Airport: Shreveport Downtown Airport
Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N487CT
Reported as: Flight Design Ctsw
Reported engine: ROTAX 912ULS
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Other injuries: 0
Pilot’s certificates: Commercial pilot, sport pilot
Pilot’s flight hours: 4,600 total300 in this make and model23 in the last 90 days

N487CTRegistration cancelled Jun 29, 2018 · Flight Design CTSWS/N 07-09-27 · Built 2007 Airframe modelFlight Design CTSW Engine modelRotax 912ULS series4 cycle

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 suffered a hard landing collapsing the nose wheel and damaging the prop. The pilot states that during land the aircraft bounced hard back up in the air. A go-around was initiated and on the subsequent landing the aircraft again touched-down hard. This collapsed the nose wheel and lead to the propeller striking the runway. The aircraft had to be towed from the runway as the nose wheel was collapsed under the airframe.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT SUFFERED A HARD LANDING COLLAPSING THE NOSE WHEEL AND DAMAGING THE PROP. THE PILOT STATES THAT DURING LAND THE AIRCRAFT BOUNCED HARD BACK UP IN THE AIR. A GO-AROUND WAS INITIATED AND ON THE SUBSEQUENT LANDING THE AIRCRAFT AGAIN TOUCHED-DOWN HARD. THIS COLLAPSED THE NOSE WHEEL AND LEAD TO THE PROPELLER STRIKING THE RUNWAY. THE AIRCRAFT HAD TO BE TOWED FROM THE RUNWAY AS THE NOSE WHEEL WAS COLLAPSED UNDER THE AIRFRAME.