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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper HE1 · Big Salmon, AK · September 16, 1990

Date
September 16, 1990 · 17:30 local
Place
Big Salmon, AK
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
LABA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6314V
Reported as
Piper HE1
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
30,000 total1,000 in this make and model50 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 into sun on gravel runway. On rollout pilot unable to see. Left wheel hit rocks and gear collapsed.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED INTO SUN ON GRAVEL RUNWAY. ON ROLLOUT PILOT UNABLE TO SEE. LEFT WHEEL HIT ROCKS AND GEAR COLLAPSED.