20181021020489I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-140 · Gulf Shores, AL · October 21, 2018

Date
October 21, 2018 · 11:30 local
Place
Gulf Shores, AL
Airport
Jack Edwards
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9936W
Reported as
Piper PA-28-140
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-320 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
112 total104 in this make and model12 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 bounced several times on landing touch down in gusty wind conditions resulting in a hard landing. Some minor damage to the aircraft and propeller. Engine resulted in sudden stoppage.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT BOUNCED SEVERAL TIMES ON LANDING TOUCH DOWN IN GUSTY WIND CONDITIONS RESULTING IN A HARD LANDING. SOME MINOR DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT AND PROPELLER. ENGINE RESULTED IN SUDDEN STOPPAGE.