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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-151 · Appomattox, VA · June 26, 1998

Date: June 26, 1998 · 20:00 local
Place: Appomattox, VA
Airport: Highview Farms Airport
Phase of flight: Final Approach
Operating rules: Pilot school (Part 141)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N12ER
Reported as: Piper PA28151
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 585 total134 in this make and model141 in the last 90 days

N12ERRegistered now · Piper PA-28-151S/N 28-7615099 · Built 1976 Airframe modelPiper PA-28-151 Engine modelLycoming 0-320 seriesReciprocating

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.

(-5) Pilot failed to adjust sink rate landed short of runway on landscape timber. Right main gear broke off aircraft veered off runway.

As the FAA filed it

(-5) PILOT FAILED TO ADJUST SINK RATE LANDED SHORT OF RUNWAY ON LANDSCAPE TIMBER. RIGHT MAIN GEAR BROKE OFF AIRCRAFT VEERED OFF RUNWAY.