19790115001529I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA28* · Wilmington, DE · January 15, 1979

Date: January 15, 1979 · 15:00 local
Place: Wilmington, DE
Airport: Municipal
Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N1435Z
Reported as: Piper PA28*
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 2,000 total140 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 retracted as pilot turned on taxiway. No gear malfunction found.

As the FAA filed it

NOSE GEAR RETRACTED AS PILOT TURNED ON TAXIWAY. NO GEAR MALFUNCTION FOUND.