# Incident 20010615017409I: Piper PA28161, Tracy, CA, June 15, 2001 - Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported - Date: June 15, 2001, 13:00 local time - Place: Tracy, CA - Airport: Tracy Municipal Airport - Damage: Substantial damage - Phase of flight: Unauth Low Level Opns - Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91) - Location: 37.6889° N, 121.4416° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at TRACY MUNI (TCY), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs) - Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.6889&lon=-121.4416&mi=10 - Aircraft: N9141Y, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N9141Y-2008-07-10) (OpenAirDocs) - Registry model: Piper PA-28-161 (registry code 7102803, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-161) (OpenAirDocs) - Registry engine: Lycoming 0-320 series (registry code 41508, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-320-series) (OpenAirDocs) - Reported make and model: PIPER PA28161 - Reported engine: LYC O320D3G - People aboard: 1 - Fatal injuries: 0 - Pilot certificates: Student - Pilot flight hours: 17 total, 17 in the last 90 days - FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/) - Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20010615017409I ## Narrative As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^. (-23) A HOTLINE REPORT FROM AN INDIVIDUAL STATED THAT A PILOT GOT LOST AND HE DESCENDED TO READ STREET SIGNS AND HIT A POWER LINE. THE CALLER STATED THAT THE AIRPLANE WAS LOCATED AT TRACY AIRPORT IN CA. INSPECTION OF THE AIRCRAFT REVEALED THAT THE RIGHT WING CAP WAS RIPPED OPEN, AIRCRAFT WINDSHIELD WAS SCARRED WITH CABLING MARKS, AND A HOLE WAS ON THE PILOT'S SIDE, OUTSIDE AIR TEMPERATURE PROBE WAS MISSING, COMMUNICATION ANTENNAS WERE BENT AND CABLING MARKS WERE PRESENT, LEADING EDGE OF VERTICAL STABILIZER WAS SLIGHTLY CRUSHED, TOP OF THE STABILIZER WAS SHEERED OFF, THE LEADING EDGE OF THE RUDDER WAS SEPARATED AND THE RUDDER WAS BUCKLED. STUDENT PILOT OMAR B CHAUDHRY, DEPARTED HWD ENROUTE TO AN ASSIGNED PRACTICE AREA WHERE HE PRACTICED PRIVATE PILOT MANEUVERS. HE THEN DIRECTED HIS AIRCRAFT TO CCR FOR A LANDING. ON DEPARTURE FROM CCR, CHAUDHRY CONTINUED BACK TO THIS ASSIGNED PRACTICE AREA THAT APPEARED TO BE SOUTHEAST OF TRACY, CA. AIRPORT. HE FLEW NEAR SACRAMENTO AND STOCKTON AND MAY HAVE FLEW OVER AND AREA CALLED "CROWS NEST", WHERE HE INDICATED THAT HE STARTED TO PRACTICE S-TURNS AND TURNS ABOUT A POINT. DURING THIS PART OF CHAUDHRY COULD NOT REMEMBER STRIKING ANY POWER LIN ES BUT DID COMMENT ON SOMETHING HITTING HIM ON THE WRIST. HE NOTED THAT A BLUE LIGHT OF SOME SORT DID OCCUR WITHIN THE COCKPIT. CHAUDHRY NOTED THAT HE WAS LOW ON FUEL AT SOME POINT DURING THE GROUND REFERENCE MANEUVERS AND REALIZED THAT HE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH FUEL TO GET BACK TO HWD. HE COMPLETED A MENTAL NOTE OF FUEL CALCULATIONS AND DECIDED TO LAND AT THE FIRST VISIBLE AIRPORT. IT WAS UNCLEAR OF CHAUDHRY'S POSITIONAL AWARENESS AS HE STATED HE WAS NOT SURE OF THE AIRPORT HE WAS AT (IT WAS TRACY AIRPORT). AS A RESULT OF THIS INCIDENT A LETTER HAS BEEN SENT TO MR. CHAUDHRY ASKING HIM TO SCHEDULE HIS PRIVATE PILOT CHECKRIDE WITH THE OAKLAND FSDO AFTER HE HAS RECEIVED AN CFI ENDORSEMENT RECOMMENDING HIM FOR THE CHECKRIDE. ## Other reports on N9141Y (2) Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date. - [Accident 20061221027899A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20061221027899A), Dec 21, 2006: Piper PA28161 (N9141Y), Big Pine, CA, Destroyed, 2 fatal. (-23) On 12/21/2006, at approximately 13:15 hours local, N9141Y, Piper pa 28-161, serial #28-8616014, crashed 12.5 miles east, southeast of Big Pine,… - [Accident 20030906022789A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20030906022789A), Sep 6, 2003: Piper PA28161 (N9141Y), Sacramento, CA. (-23) The pilot started the engine and began to taxi when he felt the landing gear roll onto an object. The plane stopped. The pilot waved his girlfriend into… 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. --- OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.