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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-44-180 · Brownsville, TX · November 2, 1987

Date: November 2, 1987 · 11:15 local
Place: Brownsville, TX
Airport: Brownsville-South Padre International
Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N2217D
Reported as: Piper PA44180
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 1,805 total3 in this make and model120 in the last 90 days

N2217DRegistered now · Piper PA-44-180S/N 44-7995137 · Built 1978 Airframe modelPiper PA-44-180 Engine modelLycoming O&VO-360 seriesReciprocating

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.

The nose gear collapsed on landing. The upper drag link bolt sheared off at the lower drag link attach point.

As the FAA filed it

THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED ON LANDING. THE UPPER DRAG LINK BOLT SHEARED OFF AT THE LOWER DRAG LINK ATTACH POINT.