What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Hard landing caused gear to collapse.
As the FAA filed it
HARD LANDING CAUSED GEAR TO COLLAPSE.
FAA incident report · Piper J4E · Gillette, WY · May 13, 1978
- Date
- May 13, 1978 · 11:00 local
- Place
- Gillette, WY
- Phase of flight
- Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules
- General operating rules (Part 91)
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Aircraft
- N37974
- Reported as
- Piper J4E
- Fatal injuries
- 0
- Pilot’s flight hours
- 52 total6 in this make and model0 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.