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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 421B · Huntington, WV · October 25, 1980

Date
October 25, 1980 · 19:06 local
Place
Huntington, WV
Airport
Tri State
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N469RJ
Reported as
Cessna 421B
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,000 total300 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.

Unable to lock nose gear down before landing, nose gear collapsed on touchdown. Found broken torque tube support.

As the FAA filed it

UNABLE TO LOCK NOSE GEAR DOWN BEFORE LANDING, NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED ON TOUCHDOWN. FOUND BROKEN TORQUE TUBE SUPPORT.

Other reports on N469RJ · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.