# Incident 20170620012269I: Piper PA46-500TP, Vero Beach, FL, June 20, 2017

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 20, 2017, 08:03 local time
- Place: Vero Beach, FL
- Airport: Vero Beach Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 27.6556° N, 80.4180° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at VERO BEACH RGNL (VRB), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=27.6556&lon=-80.4180&mi=10
- Aircraft: N455SG, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N455SG) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA46-500TP (registry code 7104622, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa46-500tp) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Pratt & Whitney PT6A series (registry code 52032, https://openairdocs.org/engine/pratt-whitney-pt6a-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA46-500TP
- Reported engine: P&W PT6A SER
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 3,223 total, 1,348 in this make and model, 30 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20170620012269I

## Narrative

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

ON APPROACH FOR LANDING THE PALM BEACH TOWER ADVISED A LANDING ON 12L DUE TO THE REPORTED CROSSWIND. HOWEVER VERO BEACH AIRPORT WAS REPORTING VFR AND THE PILOT REQUESTED RUNWAY 4 AT VERO BEACH AIRPORT (VRB). THE PILOT STATED HE WAS AT 3200 FEET, BUMPY AND APPROACHING THE AIRPORT. HE ALSO STATED THAT HE DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO PLUG IN THE APPROACH, REVIEW IT AND THE AIRPORT ATIS WAS REPORTING VFR. HE DESCENDED TO 2000 AT ABOUT 1000FPM DUE TO PROXIMITY OF THE AIRPORT. THROUGHOUT THIS TIME HE CLAIMED TO BE BUSY AS TURBULENCE AND 80 DEGREE CROSSWINDS WAS APPARENT. HE BROKE FROM THE CLOUDS, HAD THE AIRPORT OFF HIS NOSE WHERE AS HE WAS CLEARED TO LAND. AT THIS TIME HE WAS DEALING WITH HIGH AIRSPEED, THINKING IT WAS DUE ONLY TO HIS QUICK VERTICAL DESCENT AND TURBULENCE BUT, IN TURN HE NEGLECTED TO LOWER THE GEAR. THE AIRCRAFT SKIDDED AND CAME TO A STOP AT INTERSECTION CHARLIE AND RUNWAY 4; ALL OTHER CHECKLIST PROCEDURES WERE COMPLETED AS STATED. THE AIRCRAFT OVERALL HAD MINOR TO MODERATE DAMAGE TO THE UNDERCARRIAGE, WITH LOSS OF ANTENNAS. BOTH FLAPS APPEAR TO HAVE MODERATE TO SEVERE DAMAGE BUT, THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE WAS THAT OF THE ENGINE, ENGINE EXHAUST PIPES AND THE PROPELLER.

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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