19851013060799I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-181 · Avalon, CA · October 13, 1985

Date
October 13, 1985 · 12:50 local
Place
Avalon, CA
Airport
Catalina
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4299Q
Reported as
Piper PA28181
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
140 total50 in this make and model15 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.

Flared late and bounced on landing. Nose wheel touched down hard and collapsed.

As the FAA filed it

FLARED LATE AND BOUNCED ON LANDING. NOSE WHEEL TOUCHED DOWN HARD AND COLLAPSED.

Other reports on N4299Q · 1

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