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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-24-180 · Santa Rosa, CA · July 23, 2003

Date
July 23, 2003 · 11:47 local
Place
Santa Rosa, CA
Airport
Sonoma County
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8087P
Reported as
Piper PA24180
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
28,000 total1,300 in this make and model5 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) Pilot did not select gear down prior to landing. Sts tower alerted pilot of this condition but the aircraft was too close to the ground to prevent propeller strike to the runway.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) PILOT DID NOT SELECT GEAR DOWN PRIOR TO LANDING. STS TOWER ALERTED PILOT OF THIS CONDITION BUT THE AIRCRAFT WAS TOO CLOSE TO THE GROUND TO PREVENT PROPELLER STRIKE TO THE RUNWAY.