# Incident 19810807071389I: Piper PA31, San Juan, Puerto Rico, August 7, 1981

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 7, 1981, 14:25 local time
- Place: San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Airport: Pureto Rico International
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 18.4663° N, 66.1057° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of San Juan, PR, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=18.4663&lon=-66.1057&mi=10
- Aircraft: N7559L, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N7559L-2005-03-24) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-31-310 (registry code 7103102, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-31-310) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming TI0-540 series (registry code 41533, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-ti0-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA31
- Reported engine: LYC IO540*
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 8,625 total, 454 in this make and model, 90 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19810807071389I

## Narrative

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

ZA #1 ENGINE ROUGH, RETURNED SHUT DOWN ENGINE, LEFT GEAR DID NOT EXTEND, LEFT WING DRAGGED,AIRCRAFT WENT OFF RUNWAY

## Other reports on N7559L (2)

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

- [Accident 19870214003329A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19870214003329A), Feb 14, 1987: Piper PA31310 (N7559L), Denver, CO. The aircraft taxied into soft ground after the pilot had blacked out. Medical certificate suspended.
- [Incident 19781014030329I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19781014030329I), Oct 14, 1978: Piper PA31 (N7559L), St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Minor damage. Pilot scraped wing tip across the windshield of a parked airplane.

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.

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