# Accident 20000406009299A: Piper PA34220T, Houston, TX, April 6, 2000

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 6, 2000, 14:05 local time
- Place: Houston, TX
- Airport: William P Hobby Airport
- Damage: No damage
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 29.6458° N, 95.2772° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at WILLIAM P HOBBY (HOU), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=29.6458&lon=-95.2772&mi=10
- Aircraft: N823A, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N823A-2008-07-14) (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
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000406009299A

## Narrative

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

(-23) WITNESSES STATED THEY HEARD POWER SHUT DOWN AND OBSERVED THE A/C PITCH NOSE DOWN. AT THAT TIME THE A/C HIT ON THE NOSE WHEEL, THE NOSE PITCHED UP, THEN THE MAIN WHEELS CONTACTED THE RUNWAY. WHEN THE MAIN WHEELS CONTACTED THE RUNWAY THE A/C BOUNCED AND PITCHED NOSE AND LEFT WING DOWN. WITNESS JOE JOHNSON SAID "IT WAS UP SO FAR, I'M SURPRISED IT DIDN'T GO OVER". THIS IS WHEN THE LEFT PROPELLOR CONTACTED THE RUNWAY. THE PROPELLOR, HUB AND SPINNER DEPARTED THE A/C BY FRACTURING THE FLANGE FROM THE CRANK SHAFT. THE A/C THEN BOUNCED ON THE LEFT MAIN WHEEL AND PROPELLED THE A/C OVER AND ONTO THE RIGHT MAIN AND NOSE WHEEL, WHERE THE RIGHT PROPELLOR MADE CONTACT WITH THE RUNWAY. THE RIGHT PROPELLOR SHOWS SIGNS OF CONTACT WITH THE RUNWAY BY CURLING THE TIPS OF BOTH BLADES INWARD TOWARD THE HUB. THE A/C SETTLED ON ALL THREE WHEELS. THE PILOT THEN TAXIIED TO HOUSTON EXEC. WITH THE RIGHT ENGINE.

## NTSB investigation

None matched to this report by aircraft and date. Search the NTSB's own records: https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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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