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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 421 · Long Beach, CA · March 28, 1981

Date
March 28, 1981 · 10:20 local
Place
Long Beach, CA
Airport
Long Beach
Phase of flight
Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N421WA
Reported as
Cessna 421
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,500 total150 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 main scissor bolt fell out on takeoff roll. Gear pivoted and aircraft veered off runway.

As the FAA filed it

LEFT MAIN SCISSOR BOLT FELL OUT ON TAKEOFF ROLL. GEAR PIVOTED AND AIRCRAFT VEERED OFF RUNWAY.