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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32R-301 · Indianapolis, IN · March 6, 2015

Date
March 6, 2015 · 13:45 local
Place
Indianapolis, IN
Airport
Eagle Creek
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9165N
Reported as
Piper PA-32R-301
Reported engine
Lycoming IO-540 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Commercial pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
4,000 total15 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 pilot initiated a landing on runway 21 at the Eagle Creek airpark (eye) under VMC. The flight was operated under part 91 flight rules and was returning from muncie, Indiana following an annual inspection. The aircraft landed with the landing gear in the up position and slid down the runway approximately 1000 feet.

As the FAA filed it

THE PILOT INITIATED A LANDING ON RUNWAY 21 AT THE EAGLE CREEK AIRPARK (EYE) UNDER VMC. THE FLIGHT WAS OPERATED UNDER PART 91 FLIGHT RULES AND WAS RETURNING FROM MUNCIE, INDIANA FOLLOWING AN ANNUAL INSPECTION. THE AIRCRAFT LANDED WITH THE LANDING GEAR IN THE UP POSITION AND SLID DOWN THE RUNWAY APPROXIMATELY 1000 FEET.