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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Jankow Edward W MUSTANG II · St Petersburg, FL · August 28, 2018

Date
August 28, 2018 · 09:35 local
Place
St Petersburg, FL
Airport
St Pete-Clearwater International
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8EJ
Reported as
Jankow Edward W Mustang II
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-320 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
1,293 total9 in this make and model2 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.

While landing rwy 4 at pie pilot made a hard landing causing right main landing gear to distort (flatten) and travel more than usual allowing propeller to strike the runway. Right main landing gear wheel skirt also struck the area under the wing forward of the wing spar causing damage to the wheel skirt, leading edge, bottom and top of the right wing.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE LANDING RWY 4 AT PIE PILOT MADE A HARD LANDING CAUSING RIGHT MAIN LANDING GEAR TO DISTORT (FLATTEN) AND TRAVEL MORE THAN USUAL ALLOWING PROPELLER TO STRIKE THE RUNWAY. RIGHT MAIN LANDING GEAR WHEEL SKIRT ALSO STRUCK THE AREA UNDER THE WING FORWARD OF THE WING SPAR CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE WHEEL SKIRT, LEADING EDGE, BOTTOM AND TOP OF THE RIGHT WING.