# Incident 19960725026979I: Piper PA34200, Santa Barbara, CA, July 25, 1996

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 25, 1996, 15:42 local time
- Place: Santa Barbara, CA
- Airport: Santa Barbara Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Touch And Go Landing
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Operator: RK7V
- Location: 34.4262° N, 119.8415° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at SANTA BARBARA MUNI (SBA), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=34.4262&lon=-119.8415&mi=10
- Aircraft: N4484T (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA34200
- Reported engine: LYC IO360C1E6
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,800 total, 180 in this make and model, 30 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19960725026979I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

NARRATIVE: N4484T, A SENECA, LANDED 15L, NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED ON ROLLOUT. 2 SOB, NO INJURIES. (SBA ATCT, THROUGH THE RO DO JERRY ACOSTA OBTAINED PERM ISSION TO MOVE AIRCRAFT FROM NTSB.) 7-1-96 INSP. CAMPBELL OF VNY FSDO TELECON INTERVIEW WITH PIC MAURO MOROSETTI. MOROSETTI IS FLT INSTR FOR PACIFIC AVIATION AT SBA ^PRIVACY DATA OMIT^ ITALIAN CITIZEN U.S. CERT. #2463348 SSAN 605544457. MOROSETTI STATED: ON 7-25-96 HE WAS GIVING DUAL INSTRUCTION TO DAVID FISCH. THEY HAD BEEN DOING PATTERN WORK FOR APPROX. 20 MINUTES WHEN DURING A LANDING AND TAKE-OFF ROLL THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED. NO UNUSUAL OR HARD LANDINGS HAD BEEN ENCOUNTERED ON THIS SESSION. MOROSETTI WAS PIC AT THE TIME. HE MAINTAINED CONTROL OF ACFT WITH BRAKING. NO INJURIES TO OCCUPANTS. BOTH PROPS/ENG AND NOSE DAMAGED. 7-3-96 INSP. CAMPBELL INSPECTED ACFT. FOUND GEAR BRACKET CRACKED ON NOSE BULKHEAD. INTERVIEWED D.O.M. DODSON (PACIFIC AVIATION). ACFT HAD 25 HOURS AND 100 LANDINGS SINCE LAST INSPECTION. NO DEFECTS WERE NOTED DURING LAST INSPECTION. MALFUNCTION AND DEFECT REPORT WILL BE SUBMITTED. PART NAME=MOUNT ASSEMBLY, HYDRAULIC JACK. PART NUMBER=95724-00. CONCLUSION: THIS AIRCRAFT HAS OVER 5600 HOURS TOTAL TIME, WITH MOST OF  THE HOURS USED IN STUDENT TRAINING. I FEEL THAT THE BRACKET COULD HAVE BEEN STRESSED AT ANY TIME DURING THE 100 CYCLES AFTER INSPECTION AND FAILED WITH NO FAULT OF MOROSETTI. NO FURTHER ACTION WILL BE TAKEN. THIS INVESTIGATION IS CLOSED. M OR D FILED.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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