# Incident 19790111000909I: Piper PA32RT300, Siloam Springs, AR, January 11, 1979

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 11, 1979, 11:45 local time
- Place: Siloam Springs, AR
- Airport: Smith
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 36.1854° N, 94.5300° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Siloam Springs, AR, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=36.1854&lon=-94.5300&mi=10
- Aircraft: N39516, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N39516-2013-05-23) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-32RT-300 (registry code 7103215, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-32rt-300) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA32RT300
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 300 total, 75 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/19790111000909I

## Narrative

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

NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED ON LANDING. CAUSE UNDETERMINED.

## Other reports on N39516 (1)

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

- [Accident 19850212074021A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19850212074021A), Feb 12, 1985: Piper PA32RT300 (N39516), Healdton, OK, Destroyed, 1 fatal. Horizontal stabilator impacted 1162N in flight. Control lost, impacted ground. Operating at wrong VFR altitude.

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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