19861220080929I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 95B55 · Palm Springs, CA · December 20, 1986

Date
December 20, 1986 · 15:00 local
Place
Palm Springs, CA
Airport
Palm Springs Municipal
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N41288
Reported as
Beech 95B55
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,300 total1,525 in this make and model25 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 wheel and lower strut separated aircraft on takeoff. Landed on remaining nose strut. Torque link had broken.

As the FAA filed it

NOSE WHEEL AND LOWER STRUT SEPARATED AIRCRAFT ON TAKEOFF. LANDED ON REMAINING NOSE STRUT. TORQUE LINK HAD BROKEN.

Other reports on N41288 · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.