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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32-260 · Chariton, IA · January 12, 2021

Date
January 12, 2021 · 13:30 local
Place
Chariton, IA
Airport
Chariton Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Landing: Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N324TS
Reported as
Piper PA-32-260
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-540 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
767 total62 in this make and model4 in the last 90 days

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.

Pilot selected left wing tip tank that was empty. Engine entered fuel starvation. Aircraft landed short of the runway and clipped a bush with left wing. Aircraft skidded off the runway.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT SELECTED LEFT WING TIP TANK THAT WAS EMPTY. ENGINE ENTERED FUEL STARVATION. AIRCRAFT LANDED SHORT OF THE RUNWAY AND CLIPPED A BUSH WITH LEFT WING. AIRCRAFT SKIDDED OFF THE RUNWAY.