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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA31T · Gastonia, NC · April 6, 1983

Date
April 6, 1983 · 09:30 local
Place
Gastonia, NC
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N500TW
Reported as
Piper PA31T
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney PT6A28
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
9,500 total60 in this make and model100 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.

Gear collapsed on rollout. Hard fast landing halfway down runway. Found no malfunction of landing gear.

As the FAA filed it

GEAR COLLAPSED ON ROLLOUT. HARD FAST LANDING HALFWAY DOWN RUNWAY. FOUND NO MALFUNCTION OF LANDING GEAR.