20220930017189I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Weitzel-Laury VARIEZE · Red Oak, IA · September 30, 2022

Date
September 30, 2022 · 12:15 local
Place
Red Oak, IA
Airport
Red Oak Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N212MC
Reported as
Weitzel-Laury Varieze
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Commercial pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
3,972 total3 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.

Upon touchdown the main landing gear collapsed aft causing the nose gear to hit ground hard and fold into gear well. Aircraft skidded on its belly coming to rest in grass along runway.

As the FAA filed it

UPON TOUCHDOWN THE MAIN LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED AFT CAUSING THE NOSE GEAR TO HIT GROUND HARD AND FOLD INTO GEAR WELL. AIRCRAFT SKIDDED ON ITS BELLY COMING TO REST IN GRASS ALONG RUNWAY.