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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtrsr Spenceraircr · Long Beach, CA · August 5, 1979

Date
August 5, 1979 · 18:40 local
Place
Long Beach, CA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N111DA
Reported as
Amtrsr Spenceraircr
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,000 total5 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 fell into trail position after takeoff. Gear chain was loose.

As the FAA filed it

GEAR FELL INTO TRAIL POSITION AFTER TAKEOFF. GEAR CHAIN WAS LOOSE.