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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2008 · Emporia, VA · September 16, 2023

Date
September 16, 2023 · 15:00 local
Place
Emporia, VA
Airport
Emporia-Greensville Regional
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N278PM
Reported as
Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2008
Reported engine
ROTAX 912ULS series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Student
Pilot’s flight hours
100 total60 in this make and model60 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.

Student pilot was conducting a solo cross country flight. During landing phase of flight, pilot failed to flare the aircraft, which resulted in a hard nose first landing, and subsequent failure of the nose gear and a propeller strike.

As the FAA filed it

STUDENT PILOT WAS CONDUCTING A SOLO CROSS COUNTRY FLIGHT. DURING LANDING PHASE OF FLIGHT, PILOT FAILED TO FLARE THE AIRCRAFT, WHICH RESULTED IN A HARD NOSE FIRST LANDING, AND SUBSEQUENT FAILURE OF THE NOSE GEAR AND A PROPELLER STRIKE.