19780426010979I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Rkwell 560 · St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands · April 26, 1978

Date
April 26, 1978 · 14:26 local
Place
St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Airport
Harry S Truman
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N870M
Reported as
Rkwell 560
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,600 total500 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.

As airspeed decreased on landing and nose dropped to runway. Nose gear collapsed.

As the FAA filed it

AS AIRSPEED DECREASED ON LANDING AND NOSE DROPPED TO RUNWAY.NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED.