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Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Piper PA31350 · Ruby, AK · July 17, 1981

Date
July 17, 1981 · 18:15 local
Place
Ruby, AK
Airport
Ruby
Phase of flight
Final Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N62993
Reported as
Piper PA31350
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,000 total2,525 in this make and model333 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.

Landed short of runway threshold. Impact on lip of runway folded right engine under aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED SHORT OF RUNWAY THRESHOLD. IMPACT ON LIP OF RUNWAY FOLDED RIGHT ENGINE UNDER AIRCRAFT.