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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32RT-300 · Lake Worth, FL · March 2, 2017

Date
March 2, 2017 · 15:00 local
Place
Lake Worth, FL
Airport
Palm Beach County Park Airport
Phase of flight
Landing: Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3016L
Reported as
Piper PA-32RT-300
Reported engine
Lycoming IO-540 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
2,549 total149 in this make and model19 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 N3016L landed gear up at Palm Beach County Park Airport (lna). Aircraft landed with gear up with a pilot and a passenger on board preforming a safety flight check after the aircraft had a maintenance upgrade to the cockpit instrumentation.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT N3016L LANDED GEAR UP AT PALM BEACH COUNTY PARK AIRPORT (LNA). AIRCRAFT LANDED WITH GEAR UP WITH A PILOT AND A PASSENGER ON BOARD PREFORMING A SAFETY FLIGHT CHECK AFTER THE AIRCRAFT HAD A MAINTENANCE UPGRADE TO THE COCKPIT INSTRUMENTATION.