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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-34-200T · Gainesville, FL · August 8, 1996

Date
August 8, 1996 · 10:37 local
Place
Gainesville, FL
Airport
Gainesville Regional Airport
Phase of flight
Touch And Go Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3968X
Reported as
Piper PA34200T
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,750 total8 in this make and model35 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.

Narrative: flight crew was doing touch and goes. On the third landing rollout the nose gear collapsed. The airplane rolled off the left edge of the runway and about 10 feet into the grass area. The nose gear rod end broke where it was attached to the down lock, and the attach point of the down lock cylinder was bent.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: FLIGHT CREW WAS DOING TOUCH AND GOES. ON THE THIRD LANDING ROLLOUT THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED. THE AIRPLANE ROLLED OFF THE LEFT EDGE OF THE RUNWAY AND ABOUT 10 FEET INTO THE GRASS AREA. THE NOSE GEAR ROD END BROKE WHERE IT WAS ATTACHED TO THE DOWN LOCK, AND THE ATTACH POINT OF THE DOWN LOCK CYLINDER WAS BENT.