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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-180 · Ellicott, CO · July 27, 1989

Date
July 27, 1989 · 08:20 local
Place
Ellicott, CO
Airport
Colorado Springs East Airport
Phase of flight
Final Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8465W
Reported as
Piper PA28180
Reported engine
Lycoming O360A4A
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,560 total600 in this make and model20 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.

Pilot touched down short of runway. Damaged right gear. Impacted fence on hard landing.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT TOUCHED DOWN SHORT OF RUNWAY. DAMAGED RIGHT GEAR. IMPACTED FENCE ON HARD LANDING.