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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech C23 · Colorado Spring, CO · March 6, 1983

Date
March 6, 1983 · 15:50 local
Place
Colorado Spring, CO
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N65236
Reported as
Beech C23
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
7,000 total800 in this make and model300 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.

Landed hard on main gear. Nose wheel dropped. Aircraft ran off runway down an incline into a ditch.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED HARD ON MAIN GEAR. NOSE WHEEL DROPPED. AIRCRAFT RAN OFF RUNWAY DOWN AN INCLINE INTO A DITCH.