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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-24-250 · Grand Prairie, TX · April 11, 2015

Date
April 11, 2015 · 11:15 local
Place
Grand Prairie, TX
Airport
Grand Prarie
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5778P
Reported as
Piper PA-24-250
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-540 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
2,038 total200 in this make and model9 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.

Airplane was going to take off but during roll out right gear collapsed and pilot steered the plane over to the grass median to limit the damage to the right wing and tail.

As the FAA filed it

AIRPLANE WAS GOING TO TAKE OFF BUT DURING ROLL OUT RIGHT GEAR COLLAPSED AND PILOT STEERED THE PLANE OVER TO THE GRASS MEDIAN TO LIMIT THE DAMAGE TO THE RIGHT WING AND TAIL.

Other reports on N5778P · 2

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