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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA24250 · Winter Haven, FL · January 20, 1979

Date
January 20, 1979 · 16:25 local
Place
Winter Haven, FL
Airport
Gilbert
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N95594
Reported as
Piper PA24250
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
750 total150 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.

Pilot unable to obtain gear safe light after normal extension, right main collapsed. Conduit rod PN455180 siezed.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT UNABLE TO OBTAIN GEAR SAFE LIGHT AFTER NORMAL EXTENSION, RIGHT MAIN COLLAPSED. CONDUIT ROD PN455180 SIEZED.