# Accident 20000901015189A: Piper PA34200T, Huntsville, AL, September 1, 2000

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 1, 2000, 14:00 local time
- Place: Huntsville, AL
- Airport: Huntsville Airport North Airport
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 34.8693° N, 86.5695° W: From the FAA, an estimate near the named town, within about 3 miles
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=34.8693&lon=-86.5695&mi=10
- Aircraft: N223S, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N223S-2005-01-24) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-34-200T (registry code 7103406, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-34-200t) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental TSIO-360 series (registry code 17019, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-tsio-360-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA34200T
- Reported engine: CONT TSIO360E
- People aboard: 4
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,448 total, 26 in this make and model, 75 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB MIA00LA261](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA00LA261) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000901015189A

## Narrative

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

(-23) PILOT INDUCED HARD LANDING WHICH CAUSED THE A/C TO BOUNCE AND PORPOISE. ON THE THIRD BOUNCE THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED. THE FORCE OF THE IMPACT CAUSED THE NOSE GEAR AFT FRAME SUPPORT ASSEMBLY TO FRACTURE AND PROTRUDE VERTICALLY THROUGH THE FUSELAGE AT THE FORWARD LOWER LEFT AND RIGHT WINDSHIEDL FRAME ASSEMBLY. THE FORWARD FUSELAGE AREA, STARTING AT THE NOSE TO APPROX. THREE FEET AFT OF THE NOSE GEAR DOORS WAS SCRAPPED AND DAMAGED AS THE A/C SLID APPROX. 150 YARDS ON THE ASPHALT SURFACE OF THE RUNWAY. ADDITIONALLY, BOTH PROPELLORS STRUCK THE RUNWAY SURFACE (ASPHALT) AND WERE CURLED INWARD FROM THE TIP TO APPROX. 12 INCHES UPWARD OF THE BLADE LENGTH. THERE WERE NO NOTICEABLE COMPRESSION TO OTHER AIRFRAME EXTERNAL STRUCTURES, NOR DAMAGE (VISUALLY DETECTABLE) TO THE LEFT OR RIGHT MAIN LANDING GEAR COMPONENTS OR STRUCTURE. (.4)ON SEPTEMBER 1, 2000, ABOUT 1355 CENTRAL DAYLIGHT TIME, A PIPER PA-34-200T, N223S, REGISTERED TO ROYAL SONS INC. AND OPERATED TO A PRIVATE OWNER, WAS DAMAGED DURING LANDING AT MADISON COUNTY EXECUTIVE AIRPORT, MERIDIANVILLE, ALABAMA, WHILE ON A TITLE 14 CFR PART 91 PERSONAL FLIGHT. VISUAL METEOR                                                                   OLOGICAL CONDITIONS PREVAILED AT THE TIME AND A VISUAL FLIGHT RULES FLIGHT PLAN WAS FILED. THE AIRCRAFT RECEIVED SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE AND THE PRIVATE-RATED PILOT AND THREE PASSENGERS WERE NOT INJURED. THE FLIGHT LAST DEPARTED ALBANY, GEORGIA, THE SAME DAY ABOUT 1240. THE PILOT STATED THAT HE IS A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SONS, INC. FLYING CLUB, AND THAT THE FLYING CLUB HAD JUST PURCHASED THE AIRCRAFT. HE WAS OPERATING THE AIRCRAFT AS A PERSONAL FLIGHT. HE LAST DEPARTED ALBANY, GEORGIA, AND HIS DESTINATION WAS MADISON COUNTY EXECUTIVE AIRPORT. THE APPROACH TO RUNWAY 36 AT MADISON COUNTY EXECUTIVE AIRPORT WAS NORMAL. AFTER THE LANDING FLARE, THE AIRCRAFT TOUCHED DOWN ON THE MAIN LANDING GEAR AND THEN BOUNCED. THE AIRCRAFT TOUCHED DOWN AGAIN, AND AGAIN BOUNCED. THE AIRCRAFT THEN PORPOISED AND TOUCHED DOWN ON THE NOSE LANDING GEAR. THE NOSE LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED AND THE WINDSHIELD CRACKED. HE MANEUVERED THE AIRCRAFT OFF THE RUNWAY INTO THE GRASS AND STOPPED.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB MIA00LA261](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA00LA261), Sep 1, 2000: Piper PA-34-200T (N223S), Meridianville, AL, substantial damage. Probable cause: the pilot in command's improper recovery from a bounced landing which resulted in hard landing on the nose landing gear and collapse of the nose landing gear.

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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