# Incident 20221105022869I: Moscatiello Pasqualino A LONG EZ, Grand Prairie, TX, November 5, 2022

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: November 5, 2022, 20:10 local time
- Place: Grand Prairie, TX
- Airport: Grand Prairie Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 32.6988° N, 97.0469° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at GRAND PRAIRIE MUNI (GPM), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=32.6988&lon=-97.0469&mi=10
- Aircraft: N55PM, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N55PM) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Moscatiello Pasqualino A LONG EZ (registry code 05690D2, https://openairdocs.org/model/moscatiello-pasqualino-a-long-ez) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-235 series (registry code 41505, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-235-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: MOSCATIELLO PASQUALINO A LONG EZ
- Reported engine: LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 330 total, 4 in this make and model, 4 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20221105022869I

## Narrative

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

INTERVIEWED THE PILOT AT HIS HANGER, HE STATED HIS AVIONICS STARTED FAILING IN FLIGHT OVER JOE POOL LAKE. HE CONTACTED ATC AND INFORMED THEM OF THE PROBLEM BUT DID NOT DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. THE PILOT THEN STATED HE WAS FLYING VISUAL AND COULD NOT TELL WHAT HIS ALTITUDE WAS. HE STARTED HIS DECENT IN TO GRAND PRAIRIE AIRPORT AND NOTICED HE WAS TOO HIGH AND TRIED TO REDUCE HIS HEIGHT WHILE TRYING TO KEEP HIS PLANE LEVEL. HE STATED WHEN HE TOUCHED DOWN ONTO THE RUNWAY HIS LANDING GEAR STRUCK THE RUNWAY HARD THEN AFTER HE TAXIED A WAYS HIS LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED.  INSPECTED THE AIRCRAFT AND FOUND THE MAIN LANDING GEAR HAD COLLAPSED FROM WHAT APPEARED TO BE A VERY HARD LANDING. NOTE THIS AIRCRAFT IS OF A FIXED MAIN LANDING GEAR TYPE AND DOES NOT RETRACT. FOUND THE NOSE GEAR TO HAVE SOME DAMAGE APPEARED TO BE MAINLY FROM WHEN THE MAIN GEAR COLLAPSED. ALSO FOUND DAMAGE TO THE UNDERSIDE OF THE FUSELAGE, PROPELLER TIPS AND ENGINE COWLINGS.  I ASKED THE ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ IF HE COULD TURN ON THE AIRCRAFTS INSTRUMENTS AND HE DID. NOTED THAT THE INSTRUMENT PANEL LIGHTS WERE NOT WORKING. CHECKED THE ELECTRONIC FLIGHT INSTRUMENT SYSTEM AND FOUND IT HAD MANY ERROR MESSAGES. A VOLT'S WARNING MASSAGE WAS BEING DISPLAYED WITH A TRANSPONDER ERROR MESSAGE THAT WAS ALSO BEING DISPLAYED.

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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