Piper PA-32R-300 N901BW

Summary

On 5 June 2022 at about 16:35 local time, a Piper PA-32R-300 registered N901BW was involved in an accident near Gettysburg, South Dakota, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

5 June 2022 at 16:35

Classification

Accident

Location

Gettysburg, South Dakota, United States

Nearest airport

Gettysburg Municipal (0D8)

Coordinates

44.9866, -99.9529

Aircraft

Piper PA-32R-300

Registration

N901BW

Category

Airplane

Year built

1976

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Falls City → Gettysburg

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CEN22LA257

Nobody was injured.

An inadvertent hard landing by the pilot.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot reported that the landing was “harder than normal” but otherwise uneventful. However, about 2,000 ft down the runway during the rollout, the nose landing gear collapsed. A postaccident examination determined that the right nose landing gear attachment on the engine mount had separated in tensile and shear overstress fracture. The hard landing likely fractured the engine mount and separated the attachment foot, resulting in the nose landing gear collapse during rollout.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.