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Incident

FAA incident report · Beech 58 · Cocoa, FL · June 18, 1983

Date
June 18, 1983 · 06:30 local
Place
Cocoa, FL
Airport
Patrick Afb
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N6729Z
Reported as
Beech 58
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
10,000 total0 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.

Took off with tow bar still attached to nose gear. Tower alerted pilot. Kept gear down. Returned.

As the FAA filed it

TOOK OFF WITH TOW BAR STILL ATTACHED TO NOSE GEAR. TOWER ALERTED PILOT. KEPT GEAR DOWN. RETURNED.