20240515006329I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32RT-300 · Destin, FL · May 15, 2024

Date
May 15, 2024 · 16:09 local
Place
Destin, FL
Airport
Destin Exec
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N39478
Reported as
Piper PA-32RT-300
Reported engine
Lycoming IO-540 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
953 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.

Destin, FL (dts): privacy data omitted, PA32, experienced a nose gear collapse while landing runway 32. Aircraft was towed to the ramp.

As the FAA filed it

DESTIN, FL (DTS): ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^, PA32, EXPERIENCED A NOSE GEAR COLLAPSE WHILE LANDING RUNWAY 32. AIRCRAFT WAS TOWED TO THE RAMP.