# Incident 20030620012879I: Piper PA28161, San Carlos, CA, June 20, 2003

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 20, 2003, 20:30 local time
- Place: San Carlos, CA
- Airport: San Carlos Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 37.5119° N, 122.2495° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at SAN CARLOS (SQL), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.5119&lon=-122.2495&mi=10
- Aircraft: N8209E, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N8209E) (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
- Pilot flight hours: 780 total, 42 in this make and model, 148 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20030620012879I

## Narrative

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

(-23) RIGHT MAIN LANDING GEAR FAILED ON LANDING AND THE STRUT PROTRUDED THROUGH THE UPPER WING SKIN. GEAR BOLT ATTACHMENT FAILURE WAS DETERMINED TO BE THE CAUSE. INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT THREE OF THE FOUR LOWER GEAR ATTACHMENT BOLTS WERE LOOSE AND HAD ELONGATED THE ATTACHMENT POINT THROUGH HOLES IN BOTH THE LOWER STRUT ATTACHMENT POINT AND WING SPAR ATTACHMENT POINTS.

## Other reports on N8209E (1)

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

- [Incident 19920911044849I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19920911044849I), Sep 11, 1992: Piper PA28161 (N8209E), San Carlos, CA, Minor damage. Student pilot struck a taxiway light while taxiing for takeoff.

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.