# Incident 19810215005469I: Piper PA28140, Danbury, CT, February 15, 1981

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 15, 1981, 08:40 local time
- Place: Danbury, CT
- Airport: Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 41.3948° N, 73.4540° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Danbury, CT, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.3948&lon=-73.4540&mi=10
- Aircraft: N3197Q, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N3197Q-1991-04-02) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-28-140 (registry code 7102802, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-140) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA28140
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 30 total, 5 in this make and model, 5 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19810215005469I

## Narrative

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

AIRCRAFT LANDED HARD DURING A SOLO PRACTICE LANDING. PROP HIT RUNWAY AND ENGINE MOUNTS BENT.

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.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.