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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172S · Fort Worth, TX · August 22, 2018

Date
August 22, 2018 · 15:20 local
Place
Fort Worth, TX
Airport
Meacham
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N308SP
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
37 total37 in this make and model37 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.

Pilot was performing a touch & go. During the landing, after retracting the flaps, the pilot advanced the throttle, and the aircraft left the runway to the left, impacting two taxiway lights. The aircraft was then taxied to the hold-short area of runway 35 to await the arrival of emergency and ground ops crews.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS PERFORMING A TOUCH & GO. DURING THE LANDING, AFTER RETRACTING THE FLAPS, THE PILOT ADVANCED THE THROTTLE, AND THE AIRCRAFT LEFT THE RUNWAY TO THE LEFT, IMPACTING TWO TAXIWAY LIGHTS. THE AIRCRAFT WAS THEN TAXIED TO THE HOLD-SHORT AREA OF RUNWAY 35 TO AWAIT THE ARRIVAL OF EMERGENCY AND GROUND OPS CREWS.