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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA32301 · Saratoga Spring, NY · April 24, 1994

Date
April 24, 1994 · 15:30 local
Place
Saratoga Spring, NY
Airport
Saratoga County Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8238B
Reported as
Piper PA32301
Reported engine
Lycoming IO540*
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
500 total200 in this make and model13 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 made a hard croswind landing. Lost control. Veered off runway. Pilot stated wind changed at level off.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT MADE A HARD CROSWIND LANDING. LOST CONTROL. VEERED OFF RUNWAY. PILOT STATED WIND CHANGED AT LEVEL OFF.