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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA23250 · Mc Allen, TX · May 3, 1990

Date
May 3, 1990 · 16:00 local
Place
Mc Allen, TX
Airport
Miller International
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N13999
Reported as
Piper PA23250
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
10,000 total1,500 in this make and model60 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 without right lower strut and wheel. All 4 of the pins had sheared allowing strut assembly to depart aircraft

As the FAA filed it

LANDED WITHOUT RIGHT LOWER STRUT AND WHEEL.ALL 4 OF THE PINS HAD SHEARED ALLOWING STRUT ASSEMBLY TO DEPART AIRCRAFT