# Incident 19781030027849I: Piper PA24, Cape Girardeau, MO, October 30, 1978

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: October 30, 1978, 18:19 local time
- Place: Cape Girardeau, MO
- Airport: Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 37.3094° N, 89.5584° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Cape Girardeau, MO, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.3094&lon=-89.5584&mi=10
- Aircraft: N5451P, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N5451P) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-24-250 (registry code 7102404, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-24-250) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA24
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 900 total, 100 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/19781030027849I

## Narrative

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

GEAR COLLAPSD ON ROLLOUT. PILOT SAID HE WAS UNABLE TO GET A GEAR SAFE LIGHT. ALL GEAR SYSTEMS CHECKED NORMAL.

## Other reports on N5451P (2)

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

- [Accident 20090202000939A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20090202000939A), Feb 2, 2009: Piper PA24250 (N5451P), Mineral Wells, TX, Substantial damage. Private pilot [privacy data omitted] was the pilot of a Piper comanche N5451P when it departed Mineral Wells Airport (mwl) on February 2, 2009 at approximately…
- [Incident 19980714016659I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19980714016659I), Jul 14, 1998: Piper PA24250 (N5451P), Columbus, OH, Minor damage. The aircraft landed with the landing gear not in the down and locked postion. A cmh FSDO maintenance inspection of the landing gear system could not duplicate…

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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