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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-161 · Deer Park, WA · August 5, 2020

Date
August 5, 2020 · 12:15 local
Place
Deer Park, WA
Airport
Deer Park Mumicipal
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N81713
Reported as
Piper PA-28-161
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-320 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Student
Pilot’s flight hours
20 total20 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.

During first solo flight the student pilot bounced upon landing and did not make proper corrections or initiate a go around. The airplane continued to porpoise until the nose gear failed.

As the FAA filed it

DURING FIRST SOLO FLIGHT THE STUDENT PILOT BOUNCED UPON LANDING AND DID NOT MAKE PROPER CORRECTIONS OR INITIATE A GO AROUND. THE AIRPLANE CONTINUED TO PORPOISE UNTIL THE NOSE GEAR FAILED.