# Incident 20151014017309I: Piper PA-32R-300, Cleveland, OH, October 14, 2015

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: October 14, 2015, 09:51 local time
- Place: Cleveland, OH
- Airport: Cleveland-Hopkins International
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 41.4094° N, 81.8547° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at CLEVELAND-HOPKINS INTL (CLE), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.4094&lon=-81.8547&mi=10
- Aircraft: N5510V, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N5510V) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-32R-300 (registry code 7103213, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-32r-300) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA-32R-300
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 1,533 total
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20151014017309I

## Narrative

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

PILOT DECLARED AN EMERGENCY INBOUND ON RUNWAY 24L WITH A POSSIBLE NOSE GEAR FAILURE. PILOT STATED HE HAD INDICATIONS THAT BOTH MAIN GEAR WERE DOWN AND LOCKED BUT NO INDICATION ON THE NOSE GEAR. MANUAL EXTENSION OF THE GEAR WAS APPLIED WITH NO CHANGE.  AIRCRAFT MADE A LOW APPROACH AND WAS ADVISED BY TOWER THAT THE GEAR APPEARED DOWN. PILOT STATED AS HE TOUCHED DOWN  HE HELD THE AIRSPEED AT A MINIMUM AND KEPT THE NOSE GEAR UP FOR AS LONG AS THE AIRSPEED WOULD ALLOW. AS THE NOSE GEAR TOUCHED IT FOLDED IMMEDIATELY AND THE AIRFRAME RODE THE PROP UNTIL THE AIRPLANE CAME TO A STOP.  NO INJURIES AND MINOR DAMAGE TO AIRCRAFT NOTED.

## Other reports on N5510V (1)

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

- [Incident 20150311003099I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20150311003099I), Mar 11, 2015: Piper PA-32R-300 (N5510V), Waverly, OH, Minor damage. On the morning of 03/11/2015 at Pike county (eop) airport, Waverly, Ohio. N5501V landed with the landing gear retracted. The pilot said that the landing gear…

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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