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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA34200 · Minneapolis, MN · February 23, 1979

Date
February 23, 1979 · 15:15 local
Place
Minneapolis, MN
Airport
St Paul International
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N66BL
Reported as
Piper PA34200
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,777 total650 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.

While aborting a landing with excess crosswind left main struck runway hard. Gear collapsed on landing

As the FAA filed it

WHILE ABORTING A LANDING WITH EXCESS CROSSWIND LEFT MAIN STRUCK RUNWAY HARD. GEAR COLLAPSED ON LANDING