19781205022449I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Rkwell 690B · Raleigh, NC · December 5, 1978

Date
December 5, 1978 · 17:53 local
Place
Raleigh, NC
Airport
Durham
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N246MC
Reported as
Rkwell 690B
People aboard
5
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
15,000 total2,900 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.

Landed with nose gear only down. Pilots insisted gear showed safe and visually checked. Gear system checked out ok.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED WITH NOSE GEAR ONLY DOWN. PILOTS INSISTED GEAR SHOWED SAFE AND VISUALLY CHECKED. GEAR SYSTEM CHECKED OUT OK.