# Incident 20031008025619I: Piper PA24250, Westfield, MA, October 8, 2003

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: October 8, 2003, 20:43 local time
- Place: Westfield, MA
- Airport: Barnes Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 42.1251° N, 72.7495° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Westfield, MA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.1251&lon=-72.7495&mi=10
- Aircraft: N7621E, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N7621E) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-24-250 (registry code 7102404, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-24-250) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-540 series (registry code 41532, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA24250
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 2,450 total, 150 in this make and model, 60 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20031008025619I

## Narrative

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

(-23) AIRCRAFT LANDED RUNWAY 20 AT WESTFIELD, MA, AT 8:43 PM LOCAL TIME. ON ROLLOUT, THE RIGHT MAIN AND NOSE LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED. THE PILOT STATED THAT THE LANDING GEAR POSITION LIGHT WAS GREEN AND THE SELECTOR WAS DOWN. NO AURAL WARNING WAS HEARD. INVESTIGATION OF THE RETRACTION SYSTEM WITH THE AIRCRAFT ON JACKS REVEALED THAT THE GEAR RETRACTION TUBE INBOARD ARM HAD FRACTURED. THIS ARM CONNECTS THE RIGHT MAIN AND NOSE GEAR PUSH PULL CABLES TO THE RETRACT MECHANISM. A VISUAL INSPECTION OF THE FRACTURE SURFACES INDICATED A PORTION OF THE FRACTURE MAY HAVE OCCURRED PRIOR TO THIS INCIDENT.

## Other reports on N7621E (1)

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

- [Incident 20070327004979I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20070327004979I), Mar 27, 2007: Piper PA24250 (N7621E), Palmdale, CA. (-23) Departed concord, California (ccr) enroute to las vegas, Nevada (las) via lancaster, California (wjf). Prior to arrival the pilot [privacy data omitted]…

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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