20070113001379I

Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-180 · Blythe, CA · January 13, 2007

Date
January 13, 2007 · 16:15 local
Place
Blythe, CA
Airport
Blythe Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N9641J
Reported as
Piper PA28180
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Student
Pilot’s flight hours
40 total40 in this make and model9 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) Student on intial long cross country flight: mesa, AZ (ffz) to Blythe, CA (blh), to williams gateway AZ (iwa) to mesa, AZ. Student lost control of aircraft on landing at blh, struck propeller and right wing tip. Student departed blh in damaged aircraft and flew to iwa where he again lost control of aircraft and departed runway.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) STUDENT ON INTIAL LONG CROSS COUNTRY FLIGHT: MESA, AZ (FFZ) TO BLYTHE, CA (BLH), TO WILLIAMS GATEWAY AZ (IWA) TO MESA, AZ. STUDENT LOST CONTROL OF AIRCRAFT ON LANDING AT BLH, STRUCK PROPELLER AND RIGHT WING TIP. STUDENT DEPARTED BLH IN DAMAGED AIRCRAFT AND FLEW TO IWA WHERE HE AGAIN LOST CONTROL OF AIRCRAFT AND DEPARTED RUNWAY.