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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-23-250 · Fritchburg, MA · October 22, 1980

Date: October 22, 1980 · 16:30 local
Place: Fritchburg, MA
Airport: Municipal
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N6518Y
Reported as: Piper PA23250
People aboard: 3
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 700 total150 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N6518YRegistered now · Piper PA-23-250S/N 27-3808 Airframe modelPiper PA-23-250 Engine modelLycoming TI0-540 seriesTurbo-prop

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.

Zn nose gear collapsed on touchdown. After lubrication, the gear operated normally.

As the FAA filed it

ZN NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED ON TOUCHDOWN. AFTER LUBRICATION, THE GEAR OPERATED NORMALLY.