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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-30 · Houston, TX · March 30, 1978

Date
March 30, 1978 · 19:10 local
Place
Houston, TX
Airport
William P Hobby
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7275Y
Reported as
Piper PA30
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,100 total130 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

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.

Pilot lost electrical power, extended gear manually. Gear collapsed. Both generator armatures extremely galled.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LOST ELECTRICAL POWER, EXTENDED GEAR MANUALLY. GEAR COLLAPSED. BOTH GENERATOR ARMATURES EXTREMELY GALLED.