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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA60601P · Fort Wayne, IN · October 16, 1985

Date: October 16, 1985 · 22:00 local
Place: Fort Wayne, IN
Airport: Fort Wayne Municipal Baer Fld
Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N408BW
Reported as: Piper PA60601P
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 7,241 total61 in this make and model69 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.

Nose landing gear collapsed on rollout. Probable inadvertent retraction.

As the FAA filed it

NOSE LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED ON ROLLOUT. PROBABLE INADVERTENT RETRACTION.