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Attributes | |
ACN | 1566165 |
Time | |
Date | 201707 |
Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
Place | |
Locale Reference | MBT.Airport |
State Reference | TN |
Environment | |
Flight Conditions | VMC |
Light | Daylight |
Aircraft 1 | |
Make Model Name | Piper Aircraft Corp Undifferentiated or Other Model |
Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
Flight Phase | Taxi |
Flight Plan | None |
Component | |
Aircraft Component | Propeller Blade |
Person 1 | |
Function | Single Pilot |
Qualification | Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine |
Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 140 Flight Crew Total 1800 Flight Crew Type 65 |
Events | |
Anomaly | Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft |
Narrative:
Taxiing into a grass parking spot in a tricycle gear aircraft when the nose wheel went into a small depression that the pilot could not see and the prop struck the ground twice. The engine continued to run but was promptly shut down after the prop hit.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Piper pilot reported aircraft hit unseen depression in grass parking area and prop contacted ground.
Narrative: Taxiing into a grass parking spot in a tricycle gear aircraft when the nose wheel went into a small depression that the pilot could not see and the prop struck the ground twice. The engine continued to run but was promptly shut down after the prop hit.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.