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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-30 · Liberty, NC · August 4, 1979

Date
August 4, 1979 · 19:15 local
Place
Liberty, NC
Airport
Causey
Phase of flight
Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7044Y
Reported as
Piper PA30
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
792 total32 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.

Heard gear warning horn on takeoff roll. Inadvertantly selected ul position on selector.

As the FAA filed it

HEARD GEAR WARNING HORN ON TAKEOFF ROLL. INADVERTANTLY SELECTED UL POSITION ON SELECTOR.