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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA23250 · Easton, PA · February 16, 1986

Date
February 16, 1986 · 16:30 local
Place
Easton, PA
Airport
Easton
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N63874
Reported as
Piper PA23250
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,000 total1,000 in this make and model6 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.

Landed long due to water on runway. Groundlooped to avoid running off end of runway. Brakes were spongy.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED LONG DUE TO WATER ON RUNWAY. GROUNDLOOPED TO AVOID RUNNING OFF END OF RUNWAY. BRAKES WERE SPONGY.