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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-31-350 · Tuscaloosa, AL · March 10, 1997

Date
March 10, 1997 · 13:00 local
Place
Tuscaloosa, AL
Airport
Tuscaloosa Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N120JD
Reported as
Piper PA31350
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,500 total775 in this make and model5 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: pilot stated: upon landing the left main gear collapsed. Gear indicator was green. Landing was normal, but as the weight came down on the gear the left main collapsed damaging the left wing tip, left flap & aileron and left prop.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: PILOT STATED: UPON LANDING THE LEFT MAIN GEAR COLLAPSED. GEAR INDICATOR WAS GREEN. LANDING WAS NORMAL, BUT AS THE WEIGHT CAME DOWN ON THE GEAR THE LEFT MAIN COLLAPSED DAMAGING THE LEFT WING TIP, LEFT FLAP & AILERON AND LEFT PROP.

Other reports on N120JD · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.