# Incident 19870404055229I: Piper PA38112, St Paul, MN, April 4, 1987

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 4, 1987, 16:57 local time
- Place: St Paul, MN
- Airport: St Paul Downtown
- Phase of flight: Final Approach
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 44.9444° N, 93.0933° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of St. Paul, MN, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=44.9444&lon=-93.0933&mi=10
- Aircraft: N23797, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N23797-1999-03-01) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-38-112 (registry code 7103812, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-38-112) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA38112
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 10,115 total, 550 in this make and model, 64 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19870404055229I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

A TWIN BEECH ON A PRACTICE IFR APPROACH CAUSED A NEAR MISS BY 50 FT OF THIS AIRCRAFT WHILE IT WAS ON FINAL.

## Other reports on N23797 (1)

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

- [Accident 19940213002009A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19940213002009A), Feb 13, 1994: Piper PA38112 (N23797), Minneapolis, MN, Destroyed. Struck power line and crashed during approach to land. Student was aware of the power line.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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