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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Dehavilland DH104 DOVE 6A · Auburn, AL · August 3, 1979

Date
August 3, 1979 · 00:00 local
Place
Auburn, AL
Airport
Opelika
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N4263C
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,439 total930 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.

Gear collapsed on touchdown. Found threads stripped out of lower link.

As the FAA filed it

GEAR COLLAPSED ON TOUCHDOWN. FOUND THREADS STRIPPED OUT OF LOWER LINK.