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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 421B · Richmond, VA · November 21, 1979

Date
November 21, 1979 · 21:00 local
Place
Richmond, VA
Airport
Byrd
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N41124
Reported as
Cessna 421B
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
484 total100 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 could not get down light for nose gear, which collapsed on rollout due to mechanical malfunction.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT COULD NOT GET DOWN LIGHT FOR NOSE GEAR, WHICH COLLAPSED ON ROLLOUT DUE TO MECHANICAL MALFUNCTION.