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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Blanca 1731TC · Big Bear, CA · August 15, 1979

Date
August 15, 1979 · 19:30 local
Place
Big Bear, CA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N14755
Reported as
Blanca 1731TC
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,325 total220 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 allowed one main gear to drop off runway edge into hole. Gear collapsed.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT ALLOWED ONE MAIN GEAR TO DROP OFF RUNWAY EDGE INTO HOLE. GEAR COLLAPSED.