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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-161 · Waco, TX · June 20, 2017

Date
June 20, 2017 · 17:20 local
Place
Waco, TX
Airport
Waco Regional Airport
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
Pilot school (Part 141)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N30726
Reported as
Piper PA-28-161
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-320 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Student
Pilot’s flight hours
59 total59 in this make and model30 in the last 90 days

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.

Student pilot porpoised four or five times on landing before the nose gear collapsed.

As the FAA filed it

STUDENT PILOT PORPOISED FOUR OR FIVE TIMES ON LANDING BEFORE THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED.

Other reports on N30726 · 3

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