FAA incident report · Piper PA60601P · Farmington, NM · July 31, 1981
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.
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Pilot landed with nosegear retracted. Found steering actuator attachment bolt broken thereby preventing extension.
PILOT LANDED WITH NOSEGEAR RETRACTED. FOUND STEERING ACTUATOR ATTACHMENT BOLT BROKEN THEREBY PREVENTING EXTENSION.