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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 65 · Ft Worth, TX · August 30, 1980

Date
August 30, 1980 · 16:30 local
Place
Ft Worth, TX
Airport
Meacham
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N10JC
Reported as
Beech 65
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,000 total2,000 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 would not lock down. Actuator torque worn causing misalignment and lock down failure.

As the FAA filed it

NOSE GEAR WOULD NOT LOCK DOWN. ACTUATOR TORQUE WORN CAUSING MISALIGNMENT AND LOCK DOWN FAILURE.