20220622009909I

Incident · No damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-44-180 · Pensacola, FL · June 22, 2022

Date
June 22, 2022 · 14:53 local
Place
Pensacola, FL
Airport
Pensacola International
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
No damage
Aircraft
N2079N
Reported as
Piper PA-44-180
Reported engine
Lycoming O&VO-360 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Airline transport
Pilot’s flight hours
2,000 total

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 landed runway 35 with three green lights and touched down for rollout. Nose landing gear aft drag link attach bolt sheared upon landing and resulted in a loss of steering as the aircraft veered to the right off the runway.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED RUNWAY 35 WITH THREE GREEN LIGHTS AND TOUCHED DOWN FOR ROLLOUT. NOSE LANDING GEAR AFT DRAG LINK ATTACH BOLT SHEARED UPON LANDING AND RESULTED IN A LOSS OF STEERING AS THE AIRCRAFT VEERED TO THE RIGHT OFF THE RUNWAY.