19980313006359I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-30 · Tulsa, OK · March 13, 1998

Date
March 13, 1998 · 20:05 local
Place
Tulsa, OK
Airport
Richard Lloyd Jones Jr Airport
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8512Y
Reported as
Piper PA30
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
454 total28 in this make and model29 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 landing into a headwind, lowered flaps 10 degree, yellow gear indicator light was not on and green light was hard to see at night with instrument lights on. Drag on airplane indicated gear was down, on touch down, the gear folded and rolled on side of tires and belly until it stopped short of exit.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: PILOT LANDING INTO A HEADWIND, LOWERED FLAPS 10 DEGREE, YELLOW GEAR INDICATOR LIGHT WAS NOT ON AND GREEN LIGHT WAS HARD TO SEE AT NIGHT WITH INSTRUMENT LIGHTS ON. DRAG ON AIRPLANE INDICATED GEAR WAS DOWN, ON TOUCH DOWN, THE GEAR FOLDED AND ROLLED ON SIDE OF TIRES AND BELLY UNTIL IT STOPPED SHORT OF EXIT.