) wrote:

Anyone else here ever experience one? How did yours happen?

I have not experienced one personally, but a flight instructor and a
student from my flight school had landed at a nearby single strip
airport. Instead of back-taxiing down the runway, they opted to taxi on
the grass, which is actually an adjacent grass strip.

However, at the end of the grass strip they turned the aircraft around
to taxi onto the runway when the nose wheel dropped into a gopher hole.
The prop struck the soft ground but somehow neither student nor
instructor knew of the prop strike until they returned to our main
airport. Regardless of the softness of the ground, an engine tear-down
was needed.

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Peter