# Accident 20140518006579A: Piper PA-28-140, Sussex, NJ, May 18, 2014

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 18, 2014, 15:00 local time
- Place: Sussex, NJ
- Airport: Susssex
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Approach
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 41.2088° N, 74.6082° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Sussex, NJ, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.2088&lon=-74.6082&mi=10
- Aircraft: N9592W, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N9592W) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-28-140 (registry code 7102802, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-140) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-320 series (registry code 41508, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-320-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA-28-140
- Reported engine: LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 1,550 total, 900 in this make and model, 3 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20140518006579A

## Narrative

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

PILOT^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ ON PERSONAL BUSINESS FLIGHT MAKING APPROACH TO RWY 03 AT SUSSEX NJ (FWN), STATED HE WAS"A BIT FAST ON FINAL". HE TOUCHED DOWN ONCE AND BOUNCED, TOUCHED DOWN AGAIN AND BOUNCED, THOUGHT HE COULD SALVAGE THE NEXT TOUCHDOWN BUT LANDED HARD AND DAMAGED THE NOSE GEAR, RESULTING IN DAMAGE TO THE PROP AND COWLING. THE PILOT STATED THAT "IT WAS BAD PILOTAGE" AND INDICATED THAT THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE AIRCRAFT OR RUNWAY, AND THAT THE CROSSWIND WAS ONLY A MINOR FACTOR.

POST ACCIDENT INSPECTION OF THE AIRCRAFT SHOWS BOTH PROP BLADES CURLED FROM THE TIPS AND SCRATCHED ON THE FRONT; NOSE GEAR BENT AFT APPROXIMATELY 45 DEGREES FROM NORMAL, UPPER NOSE GEAR SUPPORT TUBES BROKEN AND LOWER TUBES BENT(THE NOSE GEAR SUPPORT STRUCTURE IS INTERGAL TO THE ENGINE MOUNT SUPPORT FRAME ON THIS AIRCRAFT); SEVERAL PUNCTURES IN THE BELLY AFT OF THE FIREWALL FROM IMPACT OF THE NOSE WHEEL FAIRING; FIREWALL AND CABIN HEAT MIXING BOX DEFORMED FROM IMPACT WITH NOSE GEAR STRUCTURE. NOSE WHEEL FAIRING BROKEN, EXTERNAL EXHAUST PIPE SCRATCHED.

ALL AERODYNAMIC AND ENGINE CONTROLS ARE CONTINUOUS AND CORRECT, NO PRE IMPACT ANOMALIES TO FUSALAGE, EMPANAGE, LANDING GEAR, OR WINGS WERE NOTED.

LANDING RUNWAY WAS 03, WIND FROM 270 STEADY AT 10.

## NTSB investigation

None matched to this report by aircraft and date. Search the NTSB's own records: https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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