19811227085659I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-23-250 · Santa Fe, NM · December 27, 1981

Date
December 27, 1981 · 15:35 local
Place
Santa Fe, NM
Airport
Santa Fe
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6455Y
Reported as
Piper PA23250
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
600 total250 in this make and model16 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.

Pilot landed on nose gear, damaging drag braces and collapsing gear.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED ON NOSE GEAR, DAMAGING DRAG BRACES AND COLLAPSING GEAR.