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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-30 · Rochester, MN · August 4, 1978

Date: August 4, 1978 · 21:55 local
Place: Rochester, MN
Airport: Municipal
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N8418Y
Reported as: Piper PA30
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 625 total150 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N8418YRegistered now · Piper PA-30S/N 30-1570 Airframe modelPiper PA-30 Engine modelLycoming IO-320 seriesReciprocating

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.

Left main landing gear collapsed on rollout due to microswitch malfunction. Switch part number 487863.

As the FAA filed it

LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED ON ROLLOUT DUE TO MICROSWITCH MALFUNCTION. SWITCH PART NUMBER 487863.