20090217000749I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-24 · Collegeville, PA · February 17, 2009

Date
February 17, 2009 · 11:45 local
Place
Collegeville, PA
Airport
Perkiomen Valley
Phase of flight
Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6360P
Reported as
Piper PA24
Reported engine
Lycoming O360*
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,980 total3,000 in this make and model15 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.

The aircraft was approaching for landing on runway 27 and struck the tops of the trees on the approach end with the right wing of the aircraft. The aircraft continued the approach and landed safely.

As the FAA filed it

THE AIRCRAFT WAS APPROACHING FOR LANDING ON RUNWAY 27 AND STRUCK THE TOPS OF THE TREES ON THE APPROACH END WITH THE RIGHT WING OF THE AIRCRAFT. THE AIRCRAFT CONTINUED THE APPROACH AND LANDED SAFELY.