# Incident 20130523008219I: Piper PA-32R-300, Bloomington, IN, May 23, 2013

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 23, 2013, 10:00 local time
- Place: Bloomington, IN
- Airport: Monroe County
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 39.1460° N, 86.6167° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at MONROE COUNTY (BMG), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=39.1460&lon=-86.6167&mi=10
- Aircraft: N2236M, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N2236M) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-32R-300 (registry code 7103213, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-32r-300) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming IO-540-K1G5D (registry code 41598, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-io-540-k1g5d) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA-32R-300
- Reported engine: LYCOMING TI0-540 SER
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 556 total, 186 in this make and model, 31 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20130523008219I

## Narrative

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

THE PILOT FLEW FROM EVANSVILLE INDIANA (EVV) TO THE BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA (BMG) ON AN IFR FLIGHT PLAN. UPON ARRIVAL OVER BMG HE WAS IN INSTRUMENT CONDITIONS SO HE CONDUCTED AN INSTRUMENT APPROACH TO RUNWAY 35.  RUNWAY 17 AND 24 WERE ALSO IN USE.  THE PILOT FLARED FOR LANDING AND HEARD AN UNUSUAL NOISE, WHICH WAS THE PROPELLER STRIKING THE RUNWAY.  THE PILOT REALIZED THE LANDING GEAR WAS NOT EXTENDED AND CONDUCTED A GO-AROUND, CYCLED THE LANDING GEAR, DID A FLY BY TO ENSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN, AND LANDED SAFELY.  THE TIP OF EACH PROPELLER BLADE WAS DAMAGED AND THE ASSOCIATED PROP STRIKE SIGNATURE WAS FOUND ON RUNWAY 35.

## Other reports on N2236M (1)

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

- [Incident 20140616010259I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20140616010259I), Jun 16, 2014: Piper PA-32R-300 (N2236M), Bloomington, IN, No damage. Description: N2236M, a Piper lance aircraft, departed the Bloomington, Indiana airport in visual meteorological conditions when the pilot reported flight…

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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