20020913027389I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32RT-300T · Waterloo, IA · September 13, 2002

Date
September 13, 2002 · 12:44 local
Place
Waterloo, IA
Airport
Waterloo Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N39637
Reported as
Piper PA32RT300T
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,768 total50 in this make and model40 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry 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.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

(-23) The airplane's nose gear collapsed upon landing. A leaking hydraulic hose to the nose gear was responsible for the gear not lowering normally, and weak springs were responsible for not locking the nose gear in place, after emergency landing gear deployment.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) THE AIRPLANE'S NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED UPON LANDING. A LEAKING HYDRAULIC HOSE TO THE NOSE GEAR WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GEAR NOT LOWERING NORMALLY, AND WEAK SPRINGS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR NOT LOCKING THE NOSE GEAR IN PLACE, AFTER EMERGENCY LANDING GEAR DEPLOYMENT.