20190522005029I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · American Champion 8KCAB · Alabaster, AL · May 22, 2019

Date
May 22, 2019 · 12:35 local
Place
Alabaster, AL
Phase of flight
Other, Specify
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N149SG
Reported as
American Champion 8KCAB
Reported engine
Lycoming AEIO-360-H1B
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Airline transport, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
7,075 total378 in this make and model252 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.

When asked to perform go around, student aggressively applied power and abrupt forward stick causing the airplane to bounce into a high pitch attitude. As a result the empennage struck the runway, breaking the tailwheel assembly and crushing the bottom of the rudder. .

As the FAA filed it

WHEN ASKED TO PERFORM GO AROUND, STUDENT AGGRESSIVELY APPLIED POWER AND ABRUPT FORWARD STICK CAUSING THE AIRPLANE TO BOUNCE INTO A HIGH PITCH ATTITUDE. AS A RESULT THE EMPENNAGE STRUCK THE RUNWAY, BREAKING THE TAILWHEEL ASSEMBLY AND CRUSHING THE BOTTOM OF THE RUDDER. .