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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA23250 · Concord, CA · July 15, 1978

Date
July 15, 1978 · 13:55 local
Place
Concord, CA
Airport
Buchanan
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N62781
Reported as
Piper PA23250
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
9,000 total150 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.

Nose gear collapsed near end of landing roll, no gear problem could be found. Pilot may have retracted.

As the FAA filed it

NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED NEAR END OF LANDING ROLL, NO GEAR PROBLEM COULD BE FOUND. PILOT MAY HAVE RETRACTED.