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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech V35A · Key West, FL · July 6, 1978

Date
July 6, 1978 · 20:30 local
Place
Key West, FL
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N689B
Reported as
Beech V35A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
433 total321 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 concerned about low fuel, made a hard landing on the nose gear, collapsed it. Pilot did not contact the tower

As the FAA filed it

PILOT CONCERNED ABOUT LOW FUEL, MADE A HARD LANDING ON THE NOSE GEAR, COLLAPSED IT. PILOT DID NOT CONTACT THE TOWER