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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA32R300 · Santa Barbara, CA · September 5, 1993

Date
September 5, 1993 · 10:12 local
Place
Santa Barbara, CA
Airport
Santa Barbara Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N71RJ
Reported as
Piper PA32R300
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
330 total30 in this make and model80 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 flared high. Made a hard landing. Left main gear collapsed.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT FLARED HIGH. MADE A HARD LANDING. LEFT MAIN GEAR COLLAPSED.