19790630018169I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-24-250 · Apple Valley, CA · June 30, 1979

Date
June 30, 1979 · 13:15 local
Place
Apple Valley, CA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5589P
Reported as
Piper PA24250
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
8,935 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.

Right gear collapsed on touchdown, cause undetermined

As the FAA filed it

RIGHT GEAR COLLAPSED ON TOUCHDOWN, CAUSE UNDETERMINED