19871028073699I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA30 · Ft Lauderdale, FL · October 28, 1987

Date: October 28, 1987 · 16:13 local
Place: Ft Lauderdale, FL
Airport: Ft Lauderdale-Hollywood International
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N65CM
Reported as: Piper PA30
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 21,000 total15 in this make and model100 in the last 90 days

N65CMRegistered now · Piper PA-31-350S/N 31-7852077 · Built 1978 Airframe modelPiper PA-31-350 Engine modelLycoming TI0-540 seriesTurbo-prop

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 gear up. Battery cables were corroded. Six battery cells were without water. Did not check on landing gear.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED GEAR UP. BATTERY CABLES WERE CORRODED. SIX BATTERY CELLS WERE WITHOUT WATER. DID NOT CHECK ON LANDING GEAR.