Piper PA-34-200 N333SE
4 April 2025 · Vero Beach, Florida, United States · No injuries
Summary
On 4 April 2025 at about 18:17 local time, a Piper PA-34-200 registered N333SE, operated by Paris Air Inc, was involved in an accident near Vero Beach, Florida, 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.
The record
- Date
- at 18:17
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Vero Beach, Florida, United States
- Nearest airport
- Vero Beach Regional Airport (VRB)
- Coordinates
- 27.6535, -80.4155
- Aircraft
- Piper PA-34-200
- Registration
- N333SE
- Category
- Airplane
- Year built
- 1973
- Engines
- 2
- Operator
- Paris Air Inc
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Instructional
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Aircraft damage
- Substantial
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- ERA25LA168
People
Nobody was injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Probable cause
Separation of the lower nose landing gear down lock link bolt, which resulted in a collapse of the nose landing gear during landing.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
The student and flight instructor of the multi-engine airplane departed for a training flight and initially planned to practice touch-and-go landings in the airport traffic pattern. After performing a go-around during the initial landing attempt, the flight instructor described that the student configured the airplane for landing and verified that the landing gear were extended. About 2 seconds after the airplane touched down on the runway normally, the nose landing gear collapsed. The airplane came to rest on the runway and the lower forward fuselage was substantially damaged. Postaccident examination of the landing gear revealed that the lower bolt, which secured the nose landing gear down lock link to the lower drag link, was missing. The bolt was not found after the accident. Without this bolt, the nose landing gear could not remain in a locked position after it was extended. Given this information, it is likely that the bolt separated during the flight, which resulted in the nose landing gear collapse during the subsequent landing.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Feb 2025 | Piper PA-34-220T | Braunschweig, Germany | - | Fatal | 1 |
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| 13 Jun 2024 | Piper PA-34-200T | Eaglesnest, Mississippi, United States | - | No injuries | - |
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