# Incident 20000612021099I: Piper PA32R300, Orange City, IA, June 12, 2000

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 12, 2000, 15:45 local time
- Place: Orange City, IA
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 43.0018° N, 96.0556° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Orange City, IA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=43.0018&lon=-96.0556&mi=10
- Aircraft: N111NW, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N111NW) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-32R-300 (registry code 7103213, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-32r-300) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming IO-540 series (registry code 41530, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-io-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA32R300
- Pilot flight hours: 1,460 total, 100 in this make and model, 110 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000612021099I

## Narrative

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

(-23) THE STATEMENT BY ^PRIVACY DATA^ INDICATED THE LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED AFTER LANDING. A STATEMENT BY ^PRIVACY DA^ WAS THE SAME AS ^PRIVACY DATA^. HE STATED THAT HE IS A PRIVATE PILOT AND HE HIRED ^PRIVACY DAT^ TO GIVE HIM INSTRUMENT DUAL FROM ANKENY, IA TO ORANGE CITY, IA. HE STATED THAT HE FLEW THE AIRPLANE WHILE ^PRIV^ FOLLOWED THE EMERGENCY CHECKLIST FOR GEAR EXTENSION. THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM WAS VERIFIED TO HAVE A FAILURE AND TOTAL LOSS OF ELECTRICAL POWER. IN A TELEPHONE INTERVIEW OF ^PRIVACY DATA O^, A GROUNDS KEEPER AT THE ORANGE CITY AIRPORT, HE STATED THAT HE SAW THE AIRPLANE APPROACH FOR LANDING, AND THE LANDING WAS DOWN. ^PRIVACY DAT^ IS AN INDEPENDENT WITNESS, AND HIS KNOWLEDGE WAS COLLABORATED BY ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED WHO IS THE AIRPORT MANAGER. IN ^PRIVACY DATA OMIT^ STATEMENT, HE ALSO VERIFIED THAT THE BATTERY WAS TOTALLY WITHOUT CHARGE. BASED ON THE STATEMENTS OF ALL INDIVIDUALS NO ACTION AGAINST THE PILOT IS PLANNED.^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ THIS INCIDENT IS CONSIDERED CLOSED WITH THIS REPORT. INCIDENT #ICE0120000024.

## Other reports on N111NW (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 20220324004149A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20220324004149A), Mar 24, 2022: Piper PA-32R-300 (N111NW), Saint George, UT, Substantial damage. On March 24, 2022, the PIC of N111NW took on ~37.4 gallons of fuel at casper Wyoming international airport (cpr). They departed cpr at ~1030 MST with an…

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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