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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-38-112 · Pittsburgh, PA · September 28, 1988

Date
September 28, 1988 · 20:30 local
Place
Pittsburgh, PA
Airport
Pittsburgh Metro Airport
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N25155
Reported as
Piper PA38112
Reported engine
Lycoming O235L2C
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
608 total80 in this make and model133 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.

Struck a deer while on night landing. Lost directional control and slid off runway. When nose gear collapsed.

As the FAA filed it

STRUCK A DEER WHILE ON NIGHT LANDING. LOST DIRECTIONAL CONTROL AND SLID OFF RUNWAY. WHEN NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED.