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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA 46-350P · Santa Ana, CA · March 22, 2018

Date: March 22, 2018 · 12:50 local
Place: Santa Ana, CA
Airport: John Wayne Airport-Orange Coun
Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N10DK
Reported as: Piper PA 46-350P
Reported engine: Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-35
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Other injuries: 0

N10DKRegistered now · Piper PA 46-350PS/N 4636223 · Built 1999 Airframe modelPiper PA 46-350P Engine modelLycoming TIO-540-AE2AReciprocating

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 N10DK landed on runway 20R and when nose wheel touched down, aircraft began veering left. Aircraft continued to the left and exited the runway and onto the grass where nose gear separated from aircraft. The aircraft?s nose lowered and the propellers contacted the ground and disintegrated. The aircraft continued sliding on the grass/dirt, spun slightly to the right and came to rest.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT N10DK LANDED ON RUNWAY 20R AND WHEN NOSE WHEEL TOUCHED DOWN, AIRCRAFT BEGAN VEERING LEFT. AIRCRAFT CONTINUED TO THE LEFT AND EXITED THE RUNWAY AND ONTO THE GRASS WHERE NOSE GEAR SEPARATED FROM AIRCRAFT. THE AIRCRAFT?S NOSE LOWERED AND THE PROPELLERS CONTACTED THE GROUND AND DISINTEGRATED. THE AIRCRAFT CONTINUED SLIDING ON THE GRASS/DIRT, SPUN SLIGHTLY TO THE RIGHT AND CAME TO REST.