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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA34200 · Erie, PA · December 20, 1983

Date
December 20, 1983 · 08:15 local
Place
Erie, PA
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N31744
Reported as
Piper PA34200
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
750 total400 in this make and model45 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.

Unable to get a safe landing gear down light. Tower fly by. Gear collapsed on landing. Nose gear tiller deformed.

As the FAA filed it

UNABLE TO GET A SAFE LANDING GEAR DOWN LIGHT. TOWER FLY BY. GEAR COLLAPSED ON LANDING. NOSE GEAR TILLER DEFORMED.