# Incident 20170727015439I: Piper PA-30, Battle Creek, MI, July 27, 2017

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 27, 2017, 14:40 local time
- Place: Battle Creek, MI
- Airport: W K Kellogg
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Rollout
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 42.3212° N, 85.1797° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Battle Creek, MI, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.3212&lon=-85.1797&mi=10
- Aircraft: N7040Y, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N7040Y-2018-09-07) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-30 (registry code 7103002, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-30) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming IO-320 series (registry code 41509, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-io-320-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA-30
- Reported engine: LYCOMING IO-320 SERIES
- People aboard: 4
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20170727015439I

## Narrative

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

ON JULY 27, 2017, 2:40PM EDT, A PIPER COMANCHE PA-30, REGISTERED AS N7040Y, TO JB AVIATION LLC.  COLLAPSED THE GEAR DURING THE LANDING ROLLOUT ON RW5L AT W. K. KELLOGG AIRPORT IN BATTLE CREEK.

THERE WERE NO REPORTED INJURIES TO THE PILOT OR THE THREE PASSENGERS.

MARKINGS ON THE RUNWAY INDICATED THERE WERE TIRE WABBLE MARKS, FOLLOWED BY THE LEFT PROPELLER RUNWAY STRIKE, FOLLOWED BY THE RIGHT PROPELLER STRIKE.  A FAILED PUSH PULL CABLE PIPER PART NUMBER 455-180 WAS FOUND FOR THE LEFT MAIN GEAR AND A FAILED GEAR RETRACTION TUBE ARM PART NUMBER 21012-03 FOR THE RIGHT MAIN AND NOSE GEAR.

VISUAL METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS PREVAILED AT THE TIME, THE RUNWAY WAS DRY AND THE WINDS WERE 010 AT 8KTS.

OTHER DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT INCLUDED BELLY SKIN DAMAGE CONSIDERED AS MINOR DAMAGE.

THE AIRCRAFT IS USED BY A PART 141 PILOT SCHOOL (LAKELAND UNIVERSITY); HOWEVER, THIS FLIGHT FROM KSBN TO KBTL WAS A PERSONAL FLIGHT.

## Other reports on N7040Y (1)

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

- [Incident 19950614021479I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19950614021479I), Jun 14, 1995: Piper PA30 (N7040Y), Clovis, NM, Minor damage. Student actuated gear down lever but failed to check. Landed gear up. Short in gear motor. CFI remiss also.

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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