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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-31-350 · Albany, NY · November 12, 1980

Date
November 12, 1980 · 06:58 local
Place
Albany, NY
Airport
Co
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
MLSA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N74923
Reported as
Piper PA31350
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,875 total575 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 unsafe light, nose gear collapsed after landing. Cause was a broken idler rod.

As the FAA filed it

NOSE GEAR UNSAFE LIGHT, NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED AFTER LANDING. CAUSE WAS A BROKEN IDLER ROD.

Other reports on N74923 · 4

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