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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech E-55 · Lake Wales, FL · February 14, 1982

Date
February 14, 1982 · 12:35 local
Place
Lake Wales, FL
Airport
River Ranch Acres
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N17820
Reported as
Beech E55
Reported engine
Continental IO520C
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,000 total2,100 in this make and model30 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.

Pilot landed, parked between two aircraft where nosewheel fell into hole, breaking retract rod.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED, PARKED BETWEEN TWO AIRCRAFT WHERE NOSEWHEEL FELL INTO HOLE, BREAKING RETRACT ROD.