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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · American AA-1A · Holt, FL · November 21, 2020

Date
November 21, 2020 · 10:00 local
Place
Holt, FL
Airport
Yellow River
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9485L
Reported as
American AA-1A
Reported engine
Lycoming O-235-C2C
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Commercial pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
1,040 total80 in this make and model4 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 landed too fast on an unfamiliar grass runway resulting in a hard landing. As the pilot began to slow the aircraft down, it began to slide on the grass until it struck a fence at the end of the runway.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED TOO FAST ON AN UNFAMILIAR GRASS RUNWAY RESULTING IN A HARD LANDING. AS THE PILOT BEGAN TO SLOW THE AIRCRAFT DOWN, IT BEGAN TO SLIDE ON THE GRASS UNTIL IT STRUCK A FENCE AT THE END OF THE RUNWAY.