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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA28140 · Marion, VA · June 11, 1978

Date
June 11, 1978 · 13:30 local
Place
Marion, VA
Airport
Mt Empire
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4552T
Reported as
Piper PA28140
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
430 total275 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.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Pilot making a normal landing touched down 50 feet short of the runway.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT MAKING A NORMAL LANDING TOUCHED DOWN 50 FEET SHORT OF THE RUNWAY.