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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech C24R · Delevan, CA · March 12, 1981

Date
March 12, 1981 · 13:00 local
Place
Delevan, CA
Airport
Gunnersfield
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N24009
Reported as
Beech C24R
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
100 total33 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.

The left landing gear casting broke at link attachment point causing aircraft to veer off runway into a ditch.

As the FAA filed it

THE LEFT LANDING GEAR CASTING BROKE AT LINK ATTACHMENT POINT CAUSING AIRCRAFT TO VEER OFF RUNWAY INTO A DITCH.