# Incident 20020128001879I: Piper PA28R200, Albuquerque, NM, January 28, 2002

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 28, 2002, 08:30 local time
- Place: Albuquerque, NM
- Airport: Double Eagle II Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 35.1449° N, 106.7952° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at DOUBLE EAGLE II (AEG), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=35.1449&lon=-106.7952&mi=10
- Aircraft: N43496, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N43496) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-28R-200 (registry code 7102811, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28r-200) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming I0360 series (registry code 41515, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-i0360-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA28R200
- Pilot flight hours: 8,000 total, 400 in this make and model, 40 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20020128001879I

## Narrative

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

(-23) ON JANUARY 28, 2002 AT 0830 MST, A PIPER PA28R-200, N43496 REGISTERED TO AERO MERIDIAN INC., OBTAINED MINOR DAMAGE UPON LANDING AFTER THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED AT DOUBLE EAGLE AIRPORT, ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, WHILE ON A PLEASURE FLIGHT. VISUAL METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS PREVAILED AT THE TIME AND NO FLIGHT PLAN WAS FILED. THE AIRCRAFT SUSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE AND THE PILOT WAS NOT INJURED. THE FLIGHT ORIGINATED AT DOUBLE EAGLE ON JANUARY 28, 2002 AT 07:30 MST.

## Other reports on N43496 (4)

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

- [Incident 20151016020979I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20151016020979I), Oct 16, 2015: Piper PA-28R-200 (N43496), Pineville, LA, Minor damage. CFI gave student pilot a simulated engine failure while on cross wind. During return to field to land downwind landing gear was not extended.
- [Incident 20051003027069I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20051003027069I), Oct 3, 2005: Piper PA28R200 (N43496), Albuquerque, NM, Minor damage. (-23) On October 3, 2005, at approximately 11:15 MDT, a Piper PA-28R-200 landed on runway 22 with the landing gear retracted at the Double Eagle airport,…
- [Incident 19910529022809I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19910529022809I), May 29, 1991: Piper PA28R200 (N43496), Albuquerque, NM, Minor damage. Nose gear collapsed on landing rollout. MAS464P4-31 bolt in the link and brace assembly gear down lock had broken.
- [Accident 19801128074439A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19801128074439A), Nov 28, 1980: Piper PA28R200 (N43496), Mountain Home, AR, Substantial damage. Ran off side of runway avoiding a deer that ran across runway in front of the landing airplane.

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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