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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-161 · Longview, TX · April 15, 1997

Date
April 15, 1997 · 13:54 local
Place
Longview, TX
Airport
Gregg County
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N43800
Reported as
Piper PA28161
Reported engine
Lycoming O320D3G
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
74 total74 in this make and model32 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: witnesses stated the aircraft made a hard landing and came across the tarmac from the direction of taxiway h and came to an abrupt stop after running into cyclone fence by the terminal. The pilot appeared to be unconscious by those persons who first approached the aircraft. privacy data omitted

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: WITNESSES STATED THE AIRCRAFT MADE A HARD LANDING AND CAME ACROSS THE TARMAC FROM THE DIRECTION OF TAXIWAY H AND CAME TO AN ABRUPT STOP AFTER RUNNING INTO CYCLONE FENCE BY THE TERMINAL. THE PILOT APPEARED TO BE UNCONSCIOUS BY THOSE PERSONS WHO FIRST APPROACHED THE AIRCRAFT. ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^