19890514027909I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-181 · Big Spring, TX · May 14, 1989

Date
May 14, 1989 · 22:15 local
Place
Big Spring, TX
Airport
Big Spring Mcmahon-Wrinkle
Phase of flight
Final Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6163J
Reported as
Piper PA28181
Reported engine
Lycoming O360A4M
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,500 total150 in this make and model6 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.

Landed short of runway. Damaged landing gear and wing. Thunderstorms and gusty surface winds around airport.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED SHORT OF RUNWAY. DAMAGED LANDING GEAR AND WING. THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AROUND AIRPORT.