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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA24 · Oklahoma City, OK · March 13, 1979

Date
March 13, 1979 · 20:14 local
Place
Oklahoma City, OK
Airport
Will Rogers
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5027P
Reported as
Piper PA24
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
460 total80 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 fully extend gear before landing. Found gear jammed by broken door hinge

As the FAA filed it

PILOT UNABLE TO FULLY EXTEND GEAR BEFORE LANDING. FOUND GEAR JAMMED BY BROKEN DOOR HINGE