19800322006769A

Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Piper PA-32-300 · Angwin, CA · March 22, 1980

Date
March 22, 1980 · 19:15 local
Place
Angwin, CA
Airport
Angwin
Phase of flight
Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N2906V
NTSB investigation
NTSBLAX80FVG21
Reported as
Piper PA32300
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
106 total10 in this make and model10 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.

Lost left wheel on night takeoff from rocky, closed, unlighted runway. Aircraft veered off runway into a rock pile.

As the FAA filed it

LOST LEFT WHEEL ON NIGHT TAKEOFF FROM ROCKY, CLOSED, UNLIGHTED RUNWAY. AIRCRAFT VEERED OFF RUNWAY INTO A ROCK PILE.

NTSB investigation

The NTSB’s investigation of this event, with its probable cause and findings. Matched to this report by N-number and date.