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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 320 · Compton, CA · June 9, 1978

Date: June 9, 1978 · 22:50 local
Place: Compton, CA
Airport: Municipal
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N9840L
Reported as: Cessna 320
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 715 total502 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N9840LRegistration cancelled May 30, 2013 · Cessna 320BS/N 320B0040 · Built 1963 Airframe modelCessna 320B Engine modelContinental TSI0-470-BReciprocating

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 unable to get a gear safe light, nose gear collapsed. Nose torque tube linkage had been misrigged.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT UNABLE TO GET A GEAR SAFE LIGHT, NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED. NOSE TORQUE TUBE LINKAGE HAD BEEN MISRIGGED.

Other reports on N9840L · 1

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

Incident 19990610022099IRoll-Out (Fixed Wing) · Saint George, UTOn June 10th, 1999 at 1110 am MDT, Mr. Dan howard landed his Cessna 320B, N9840L, at the st. George airport (sgu). Mr howard reported the landing as normal. During the landing roll-out the aircraft experienced a severe shimmy in the nose gear. Shortly after…Jun 10, 1999 · Minor damage