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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtrva SPORTMANVJ22 · Peterborough, CN · September 12, 1980

Date
September 12, 1980 · 11:40 local
Place
Peterborough, CN
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N181S
Reported as
Amtrva SPORTMANVJ22
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
360 total17 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.

Left landing gear collapsed on landing. The torque tube in the bushing failed where it rotates to retract.

As the FAA filed it

LEFT LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED ON LANDING. THE TORQUE TUBE IN THE BUSHING FAILED WHERE IT ROTATES TO RETRACT.