FAA incident report · Piper PA-24-250 · Chandler, AZ · September 9, 1979
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.
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Pilot could not lower landing gear using emergency procedure due to failure of coiled spring pn 8330239.
PILOT COULD NOT LOWER LANDING GEAR USING EMERGENCY PROCEDURE DUE TO FAILURE OF COILED SPRING PN 8330239.