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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-23-250 · Kahului, HI · December 1, 1978

Date
December 1, 1978 · 09:30 local
Place
Kahului, HI
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5281Y
Reported as
Piper PA23250
Reported engine
Lycoming O540*
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,650 total850 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.

Left main collapsed after touchdown. A downlock spring was broken.

As the FAA filed it

LEFT MAIN COLLAPSED AFTER TOUCHDOWN. A DOWNLOCK SPRING WAS BROKEN.

Other reports on N5281Y · 1

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