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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172P · Troy, AL · June 29, 2023

Date
June 29, 2023 · 08:30 local
Place
Troy, AL
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N450VR
Reported as
Cessna 172P
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-320 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Student
Pilot’s flight hours
18 total18 in this make and model18 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 experienced a hard landing resulting in collapsed NLG, prop strike and bent firewall.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT EXPERIENCED A HARD LANDING RESULTING IN COLLAPSED NLG, PROP STRIKE AND BENT FIREWALL.