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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32-300 · Levelland, TX · March 31, 1998

Date
March 31, 1998 · 09:30 local
Place
Levelland, TX
Airport
Levelland Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N31569
Reported as
Piper PA32300
Reported engine
Lycoming IO540B1C5
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,600 total1,000 in this make and model15 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 was landing runway 35 at Q24 (Levelland, TX). Winds were estimated to be 280 degrees at 22, gusting to 27 knots. After touchdown, the airplane departed the runway to the left (west) collapsing the nose gear.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: PILOT WAS LANDING RUNWAY 35 AT Q24 (LEVELLAND, TX). WINDS WERE ESTIMATED TO BE 280 DEGREES AT 22, GUSTING TO 27 KNOTS. AFTER TOUCHDOWN, THE AIRPLANE DEPARTED THE RUNWAY TO THE LEFT (WEST) COLLAPSING THE NOSE GEAR.