# Incident 20060617024859I: Piper PA28235, Lapeer, MI, June 17, 2006

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 17, 2006, 14:15 local time
- Place: Lapeer, MI
- Airport: Dupont-Lapeer Airport
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Go Round (Aborted VFR)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 43.0665° N, 83.2716° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at DUPONT/LAPEER (D95), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=43.0665&lon=-83.2716&mi=10
- Aircraft: N9448W, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N9448W) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-28-235 (registry code 7102810, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-235) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-540 series (registry code 41532, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA28235
- Reported engine: LYC O540B4B5
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 2,000 total, 1,286 in this make and model, 20 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20060617024859I

## Narrative

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

(-23) WHILE ATTEMPTING TO LAND ON RUNWAY 27 (GRASS), PILOT REPORTED THAT THE AIRCRAFT WOULD NOT SETTLE. AT APPROXIMATELY 62 KNOTS IAS SHE DECIDED TO ADD FULL POWER, BUT THE AIRCRAFT APPARENTLY STALLED AT THE SAME TIME. THE AIRCRAFT THEN CONTACTED THE GROUND. MARKS IN THE GRASS INDICATE THAT THE NOSE GEAR TOUCHED FIRST, FOLLOWED BY THE LEFT AND RIGHT MAIN GEAR. THE AIRCRAFT THEN BOUNCED AND, SIMULTANEOUSLY, THE PILOT REDUCED THE THROTTLE TO IDLE. THE AIRCRAFT CONTINUED FOR APPROXIMATELY 65 YARDS AND CONTACTED THE GROUND AGAIN, NOSE FIRST, WHERE A SPOT IN THE GRASS SHOWED EVIDENCE OF HYDRAULIC TYPE FLUID. THE AIRCRAFT BOUNCED AGAIN, AND TRAVELLED APPROXIMATELY ANOTHER 42 YARDS WHERE MARKS WERE FOUND ON THE GROUND, CONSISTENT WITH A PROP STRIKE. THE AIRCRAFT TRAVELLED APPROXIMATELY 9 MORE YARDS WHEN THE NOSE GEAR BROKE, PRODUCING A GOUGE IN THE GROUND APPROXIMATELY 30 YARDS LONG, AT THE END OF WHICH THE AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST, IN A NOSE DOWN ATTITUDE.

## Other reports on N9448W (1)

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

- [Incident 19951118042379I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19951118042379I), Nov 18, 1995: Piper PA28235 (N9448W), Whitesburg, KY, Minor damage. Narrative: on Saturday, November 18, 1995, I set forth on a pleasure weekend trip IFR form D95 (dupont-lapeer) to N83 (concord, NC) with my husband, brother,…

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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