# Accident 19780122001739A: Piper PA24400, Ontario, CA, January 22, 1978

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 22, 1978
- Place: Ontario, CA
- Airport: Ontario International
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Location: 34.0560° N, 117.6012° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at ONTARIO INTL (ONT), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=34.0560&lon=-117.6012&mi=10
- Aircraft: N6678P, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N6678P-2022-02-05) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-24-250 (registry code 7102404, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-24-250) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA24400
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,410 total, 1,006 in this make and model, 31 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB LAX78FUG14](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX78FUG14) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19780122001739A

## Narrative

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

BOLT THAT SECURES GEAR RETRACTION ARM TO GEAR RETRACTION TORQUE TSHEARED.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB LAX78FUG14](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX78FUG14), Jan 22, 1978: Piper PA-24 (N6678P), Ontario, CA, substantial damage

## Other reports on N6678P (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 20191201022039A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20191201022039A), Dec 1, 2019: Piper PA-24-250 (N6678P), San Antonio, TX, Destroyed, 3 fatal. During cruise flight N6678P declared an engine failure to sat ATC and was cleared to ksat. During approach N6678P lost airspeed, stalled and crashed, fatally…

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.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.