# Incident 19990919035339I: Piper PA34220T, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 19, 1999

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 19, 1999, 14:09 local time
- Place: Poughkeepsie, NY
- Airport: Dutchess County
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 41.6266° N, 73.8842° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at Dutchess County Airport (POU), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.6266&lon=-73.8842&mi=10
- Aircraft: N113DF, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N113DF) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-34-220T (registry code 7103420, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-34-220t) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental TSIO-360 series (registry code 17019, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-tsio-360-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA34220T
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 2,600 total, 200 in this make and model, 55 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19990919035339I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) MR. FOSTER STATED HE MADE A NORMAL LANDING AND HAD ROLLED APPROX. 600 FEET WHEN THE NOSEGEAR COLLAPSED FOLLOWED SHORTLY BY THE RIGHT MAIN GEAR. THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH OBSERVATIONS OF TOWER PERSONAL AT POUGHKEEPSIE.  MR. FOSTER DIDN'T RECALL WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN TOUCHDOWN AND THE GEAR COLLAPSING, HOWEVER HIS PROCEDURE IS TO RETRACT THE FLAPS IMMEDIATELY AFTER TOUCHDOWN.  HE SAID IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT HE RETRACTED THE GEAR INSTEAD OF THE FLAPS.  TETERBORO MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL TESTED THE LANDING GEAR RETRACTION SYSTEM 5 TIMES IN THE NORMAL OPERATIONS AND TWICE IN EMERGENCY FREE FALL.  IN EACH CASE THE GEAR CAME DOWN AND LOCKED PSITIVELY.  THE GEAR ELECTRICA SYSTEM SWITCHES OPERATED NORMALLY INDICATING THE SYSTEM WAS OPERATING PROPERLY ON LANDING.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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