# Incident 20180330024839I: Piper PA-31, Payson, AZ, March 30, 2018

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 30, 2018, 19:05 local time
- Place: Payson, AZ
- Airport: Payson
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Rollout
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 34.2568° N, 111.3393° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at PAYSON (PAN), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=34.2568&lon=-111.3393&mi=10
- Aircraft: N35AS, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N35AS-2019-07-09) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-31 (registry code 7103103, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-31) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming TI0-540 series (registry code 41533, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-ti0-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA-31
- Reported engine: LYCOMING TI0-540 SER
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20180330024839I

## Narrative

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

AIRCRAFT WAS LANDING AT PAYSON WHEN THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED DURING ROLL OUT. RIGHT HAND MAIN LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED AND AIRCRAFT VEERED OFF RUNWAY 24 TO THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE RUNWAY. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE SUSTAINED TO LOWER NOSE BOWL SKINS & LOWER BULKHEADS FORWARD OF NOSE LANDING GEAR WELL; BOTH RIGHT HAND & LEFT HAND PROPELLER BLADES WERE CURLED BACK AT TIPS; RIGHT HAND INBOARD LANDING GEAR DOOR HAD BEEN TORN OFF DURING THE LANDING; RIGHT HAND OUTBOARD LEADING EDGE DENTED IN TOWARD SPAR JUST AT THE LAST FOOT OF THE OUTBOARD DE-ICE BOOT WITH SKIN SCRAPES ON LOWER OUTBOARD WING TIP AND THE MOST OUTBOARD LOWER WING SKIN.

FURTHER INVESTIGATION THE NEXT DAY DETERMINED THE NOSE GEAR EXTENSION FITTING HAD FAILED AT THE NOSE GEAR ACTUATOR ARM ATTACH BOLT HOLE, ALLOWING THE NOSE GEAR TO MOVE BACKWARDS AND FOLD UP UPON LANDING. THIS IN TURN UNLOCKED THE RIGHT HAND GEAR LEG AND IT COLLAPSED INBOARD ALLOWING THE AIRCRAFT TO SETTLE DOWN ONTO THE NOSE AND THE RIGHT HAND GEAR LEG AND WING TIP PRIOR TO THE AIRCRAFT COMING TO A FULL STOP.

THE PILOT STATED THAT HE LANDED AS NORMAL AND THEN WHEN THE NOSE GEAR TOUCHED DOWN THE GEAR SLOWLY STARTED TO LOWER. THERE WAS NOTHING HE COULD DO OTHER THAN TO SHUT THE ENGINES DOWN AND EGRESS THE AIRCRAFT.

## Other reports on N35AS (1)

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

- [Incident 20020404019199I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20020404019199I), Apr 4, 2002: Piper PA31 (N35AS), Harrisburg, PA. (-23) Aircraft N35AS informed Capital City (cxy) control tower at approximately four miles out for landing that it had minimum fuel. At approximately one mile…

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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