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Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Piper PA-24-260 · Flint, MI · July 14, 1991

Date
July 14, 1991 · 13:47 local
Place
Flint, MI
Airport
Bishop Intrnational Airport
Phase of flight
Forced Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N8830P
Reported as
Piper PA24260
Reported engine
Lycoming IO540D4A5
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
342 total87 in this make and model

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.

Severe vibration,landed short of runway threshold in rough ground. Pitch change knobs had failed. Original prop.

As the FAA filed it

SEVERE VIBRATION,LANDED SHORT OF RUNWAY THRESHOLD IN ROUGH GROUND. PITCH CHANGE KNOBS HAD FAILED. ORIGINAL PROP.