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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172N · Fleetville, PA · April 28, 2023

Date
April 28, 2023 · 17:45 local
Place
Fleetville, PA
Phase of flight
Ground/Ramp/Ma
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N3531E
Reported as
Cessna 172N
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-320 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Airline transport, commercial pilot, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
15,100 total1,404 in this make and model

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 reported nose-wheel shimmy on previous flight. Mechanic made repairs to nose landing gear. Pilot took aircraft out on runway for high-speed taxi, experienced loss of braking on wet runway paint and inadvertently went off end of runway, down into ravine and turned over. No injuries were reported, but aircraft sustained substantial damage.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT REPORTED NOSE-WHEEL SHIMMY ON PREVIOUS FLIGHT. MECHANIC MADE REPAIRS TO NOSE LANDING GEAR. PILOT TOOK AIRCRAFT OUT ON RUNWAY FOR HIGH-SPEED TAXI, EXPERIENCED LOSS OF BRAKING ON WET RUNWAY PAINT AND INADVERTENTLY WENT OFF END OF RUNWAY, DOWN INTO RAVINE AND TURNED OVER. NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED, BUT AIRCRAFT SUSTAINED SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE.