19850112011749I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper J3L-65 · Newburyport, MA · January 12, 1985

Date
January 12, 1985 · 14:00 local
Place
Newburyport, MA
Airport
Plumb Island
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N40632
Reported as
Piper J3L65
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
260 total160 in this make and model25 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 possible hard landing. Metal gauge different on struts. May have been a factor.

As the FAA filed it

GEAR COLLAPSED ON POSSIBLE HARD LANDING. METAL GAUGE DIFFERENT ON STRUTS. MAY HAVE BEEN A FACTOR.

Other reports on N40632 · 2

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