19831118073979I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 421 · Roanoke Rapids, NC · November 18, 1983

Date
November 18, 1983 · 21:30 local
Place
Roanoke Rapids, NC
Airport
Halifax
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2740Y
Reported as
Cessna 421
People aboard
5
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,800 total70 in this make and model90 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.

Unsafe left gear light until gear recycled. Got 3 greens and landed. Left main collapsed on rollout.

As the FAA filed it

UNSAFE LEFT GEAR LIGHT UNTIL GEAR RECYCLED. GOT 3 GREENS AND LANDED. LEFT MAIN COLLAPSED ON ROLLOUT.