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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA30 · Houston, TX · March 22, 1981

Date
March 22, 1981 · 18:45 local
Place
Houston, TX
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N72444
Reported as
Piper PA30
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
904 total400 in this make and model30 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.

Aircraft landed halfway down wet sod runway. Pilot stated runway was like soap. Aircraft struck fence at runway end

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT LANDED HALFWAY DOWN WET SOD RUNWAY. PILOT STATED RUNWAY WAS LIKE SOAP. AIRCRAFT STRUCK FENCE AT RUNWAY END