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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32-300 · Greenfield, IN · June 4, 1998

Date
June 4, 1998 · 15:00 local
Place
Greenfield, IN
Airport
Popefield Airport
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2866G
Reported as
Piper PA32300
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
12 in this make and model

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.

On landing, a/c weather-vaned. Aircraft departed runway, struck taxiway sign, continued across grass, nose-wheel struck lip of taxiway and collapsed nose gear. Aircraft continued across taxiway and came to rest in grass.

As the FAA filed it

ON LANDING, A/C WEATHER-VANED. AIRCRAFT DEPARTED RUNWAY, STRUCK TAXIWAY SIGN, CONTINUED ACROSS GRASS, NOSE-WHEEL STRUCK LIP OF TAXIWAY AND COLLAPSED NOSE GEAR. AIRCRAFT CONTINUED ACROSS TAXIWAY AND CAME TO REST IN GRASS.