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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Hudson Leo LANCAIR 360 · Merritt Island, FL · May 26, 2020

Date
May 26, 2020 · 10:40 local
Place
Merritt Island, FL
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N432WH
Reported as
Hudson Leo Lancair 360
Reported engine
Continental IO-360-A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
563 total493 in this make and model38 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 adjusting for a landing with a crosswind. The pilot allowed the airspeed to slow, which resulted in a hard landing. As the result of the hard landing, the left main landing gear partially collapsed causing slight damage to the left gear strut and brake assembly.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS ADJUSTING FOR A LANDING WITH A CROSSWIND. THE PILOT ALLOWED THE AIRSPEED TO SLOW, WHICH RESULTED IN A HARD LANDING. AS THE RESULT OF THE HARD LANDING, THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR PARTIALLY COLLAPSED CAUSING SLIGHT DAMAGE TO THE LEFT GEAR STRUT AND BRAKE ASSEMBLY.