20140125000839I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-34-200 · Denton, TX · January 25, 2014

Date
January 25, 2014 · 19:35 local
Place
Denton, TX
Airport
Denton Municipal
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
Pilot school (Part 141)
Operator
W78S
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N852AT
Reported as
Piper PA-34-200
Reported engine
Lycoming I0360 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
1,229 total130 in this make and model140 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.

Aircraft landed on rwy 18 and was commencing a landing roll out when a "snap" noise was heard from the nose gear area. The airplane began to settle nose down onto the runway and damaged the props and nose of the aircraft. No injuries. Minor damage to the aircraft occured.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT LANDED ON RWY 18 AND WAS COMMENCING A LANDING ROLL OUT WHEN A "SNAP" NOISE WAS HEARD FROM THE NOSE GEAR AREA. THE AIRPLANE BEGAN TO SETTLE NOSE DOWN ONTO THE RUNWAY AND DAMAGED THE PROPS AND NOSE OF THE AIRCRAFT. NO INJURIES. MINOR DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT OCCURED.

Other reports on N852AT · 4

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