19790423024839I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA32/ · San Antonio, TX · April 23, 1979

Date
April 23, 1979 · 10:35 local
Place
San Antonio, TX
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3476W
Reported as
Piper PA32/
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,729 total97 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.

Left main collapsed during turn after landing. Attach bolts failed, had been weakened by previous hard landing.

As the FAA filed it

LEFT MAIN COLLAPSED DURING TURN AFTER LANDING. ATTACH BOLTS FAILED, HAD BEEN WEAKENED BY PREVIOUS HARD LANDING.

Other reports on N3476W · 1

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