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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28R-180 · Spartanburg, SC · September 17, 1987

Date
September 17, 1987 · 17:00 local
Place
Spartanburg, SC
Airport
Spartanburg Downtown Memorial
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4685J
Reported as
Piper PA28R180
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,500 total1,000 in this make and model100 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.

On rollout after landing the nose gear collapsed. Defect not defined.

As the FAA filed it

ON ROLLOUT AFTER LANDING THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED. DEFECT NOT DEFINED.