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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172S · Palo Alto, CA · July 29, 2017

Date
July 29, 2017 · 13:24 local
Place
Palo Alto, CA
Airport
Watsonville Municipal
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6009M
Reported as
Cessna 172S
Reported engine
Lycoming IO-360-L2A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Student
Pilot’s flight hours
90 total87 in this make and model17 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.

On July 29, 2017 at approximately 13:24 PDT, N6009M, a Cessna 172 was on landing roll runway 31, the aircraft veered off the left side of the runway striking the taxiway c sign before re-entering back onto the runway.

As the FAA filed it

ON JULY 29, 2017 AT APPROXIMATELY 13:24 PDT, N6009M, A CESSNA 172 WAS ON LANDING ROLL RUNWAY 31, THE AIRCRAFT VEERED OFF THE LEFT SIDE OF THE RUNWAY STRIKING THE TAXIWAY C SIGN BEFORE RE-ENTERING BACK ONTO THE RUNWAY.