APNewsBreak: Iowa State president had earlier ‘hard landing’
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University President Steven Leath damaged a private plane in a hard landing in 2014, 11 months before he banged up a university aircraft in remarkably similar fashion, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Leath was flying in gusty conditions on Aug. 11, 2014 and “landed hard” in a crosswind, causing propeller damage that he discovered the next day, according to university records released under the open records law.