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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA20 · Cordova, AK · September 9, 1979

Date
September 9, 1979 · 17:20 local
Place
Cordova, AK
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8980C
Reported as
Piper PA20
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,927 total583 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 landed on beach, swerved to avoid ditch. Collapsed left landing gear.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED ON BEACH, SWERVED TO AVOID DITCH. COLLAPSED LEFT LANDING GEAR.