20170512005369I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Slingsby SLNSBY-43 · Torrance, CA · May 12, 2017

Date
May 12, 2017 · 17:00 local
Place
Torrance, CA
Airport
Zamperini Field
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N288SL
Reported as
Slingsby SLNSBY-43
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Sport 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.

During landing airplane porpoised on landing which caused the nose gear strut to fold up under the fuselage belly. Which resulted in the prop strike.

As the FAA filed it

DURING LANDING AIRPLANE PORPOISED ON LANDING WHICH CAUSED THE NOSE GEAR STRUT TO FOLD UP UNDER THE FUSELAGE BELLY. WHICH RESULTED IN THE PROP STRIKE.

Other reports on N288SL · 2

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.