# Incident 19780318008949I: Piper PA22150, Forty Fort, PA, March 18, 1978

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 18, 1978, 15:00 local time
- Place: Forty Fort, PA
- Airport: Municipal
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Ops On Grnd From Ldg/Rtrcrft
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 41.2801° N, 75.8732° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Forty Fort, PA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.2801&lon=-75.8732&mi=10
- Aircraft: N8636D, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N8636D) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-22-150 (registry code 7102210, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-22-150) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-320 series (registry code 41508, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-320-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA22150
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 200 total, 4 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19780318008949I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

NOSE GEAR COLLAPSE WHILE TAXIING.

## Other reports on N8636D (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 19880103003449I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19880103003449I), Jan 3, 1988: Piper PA22150 (N8636D), Hazleton, PA, Minor damage. Left wheel struck a drifting snowbank on rollout. The aircraft veered to the left and nosed over.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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