# Incident 20200316001359I: Piper PA46-500TP, Vero Beach, FL, March 16, 2020

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 16, 2020, 09:53 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: N31LA, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N31LA-2023-09-27) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA46-500TP (registry code 7104622, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa46-500tp) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42A (registry code 52268, https://openairdocs.org/engine/pratt-whitney-canada-pt6a-42a) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA46-500TP
- Reported engine: P&W CANADA PT6A-42A
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 4,640 total, 1,849 in this make and model, 16 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20200316001359I

## Narrative

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

PILOT FLEW FROM STUART, FL. (SUA) AND PROCEEDED TO LAND AT VERO BEACH, FL. (VRB). PILOT PREPARED FOR A NORMAL LANDING AIRCRAFT CONFIGURATION GEAR DOWN AND FLAPS DOWN. DURING THE LANDING OF THE AIRCRAFT THE PILOT EXPERIENCED A HARD LANDING. THE HARD LANDING CAUSED THE AIRCRAFT TO BOUNCE OFF THE RUNWAY. THE AIRCRAFT CAME BACK DOWN HARD AGAIN CAUSING THE NOSE LANDING GEAR TO COLLAPSE. WHEN THE NOSE LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED THE AIRCRAFT SLID ON THE RUNWAY NOSE DOWN. THE PILOT APPLIED RIGHT RUDDER TO SLIDE ONTO A TAXIWAY WHERE THE AIRCRAFT CAME TO A STOP. PILOT WAS THE ONLY PERSON ON BOARD WITH NO INJURIES. THERE WERE NO MAINTENANCE DEFECTS WITH THE AIRCRAFT AND OPERATION WAS NORMAL. WEATHER WAS AND NOT AN ISSUE. THE AIRCRAFT PROPELLERS FOUR BLADE TIPS WERE BENT AND DAMAGED. THE NOSE LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED UNDER THE AIRCRAFT CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE LANDING GEAR AND BOTTOM OF THE AIRCRAFT. THE ENGINE HAD POWER AND THE ENGINE WAS DAMAGED INTERNALLY. THE PILOT?S HARD LANDING CAUSED THE MINOR DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT AND THE INCIDENT.

## Other reports on N31LA (1)

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

- [Incident 20160401024509I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20160401024509I), Apr 1, 2016: Piper PA46-500TP (N31LA), Rutland, VT, Minor damage. On 04/01/2016, [privacy data omitted] had departed pne alone in his Piper meridian, N31LA. At approximately 18:00 local, he was landing on runway 01 at rut.…

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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