# Incident 19780819048509I: Piper PA24260, Bloomington, IN, August 19, 1978

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 19, 1978, 17:28 local time
- Place: Bloomington, IN
- Airport: Monroe Co
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 39.1460° N, 86.6167° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at MONROE COUNTY (BMG), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=39.1460&lon=-86.6167&mi=10
- Aircraft: N9080P, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N9080P-1998-09-12) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-24-260 (registry code 7102406, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-24-260) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA24260
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 208 total, 71 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19780819048509I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

RIGHT MAIN GEAR COLLAPSED ON ROLLOUT. IMPROPER TENSION ON OVERLOCK MECHANISM. AD 77B21 NOT COMPLIED WITH.

## Other reports on N9080P (1)

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

- [Accident 19970106000179A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19970106000179A), Jan 6, 1997: Piper PA24260 (N9080P), Winston, MT, Destroyed, 3 fatal. Aircraft lost radar and radio contact, is assumed to have crashed. (.4) an ATC controller observed the night IFR flight with the 68-year old pilot deviating…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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