- Date
- September 21, 1982, 15:04 local (21:04 UTC)
- Place
- Langdon, ND
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N8107XPiper PA-34
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 21, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820921055809A
- Case key
- 71358
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Miscellaneous/other
Door,passenger - openFactor
Nose gear collapsed
Precautionary landing - performed
Gear down and locked - not identifiedCause
Analysis
Cabin door came open in flight and pilot made a precautionary landing. During roll-out nose gear collapsed as aircraft weight settled on it since it had not fully extended.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8107X
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 348070012
- Airframe hours
- 873
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360-EB1, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Thunderbird Aviation
- Registered owner
- Thunderbird Aviation
- Departed
- D55 · Langdon, ND
- Destination
- FCM · Minneapolis, MN
- Airport
- D55 · Langdon Municipal, runway 17, 3,500 × 50 ft, asphalt
N8107XRegistered now · Piper PA-34-200TAirframe modelPiper PA-34-200TEngine modelContinental TSIO-360 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 47
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,221 total · 3 in this make and model · 1,011 as pilot in command · 85 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.