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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Holmes A LANCAIR IV-P · Blanding, UT · August 14, 2017

Date
August 14, 2017 · 12:35 local
Place
Blanding, UT
Airport
Blanding Municipal
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N798CB
Reported as
Holmes A Lancair IV-P
Reported engine
Continental TSIO-550
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
4,600 total326 in this make and model10 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.

Upon landing, the nose wheel touched down and immediately began to shimmy violently, resulting in collapse of the nose landing gear.

As the FAA filed it

UPON LANDING, THE NOSE WHEEL TOUCHED DOWN AND IMMEDIATELY BEGAN TO SHIMMY VIOLENTLY, RESULTING IN COLLAPSE OF THE NOSE LANDING GEAR.