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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA44180 · St Paul, MN · September 19, 1979

Date
September 19, 1979 · 15:30 local
Place
St Paul, MN
Airport
Downtown
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
Pilot school (Part 141)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2157C
Reported as
Piper PA44180
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,200 total85 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.

Nose gear collapsed after touchdown. Drag brace bearings (pn 452-450) were elongated.

As the FAA filed it

NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED AFTER TOUCHDOWN. DRAG BRACE BEARINGS (PN 452-450) WERE ELONGATED.