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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 95B55 · Lake Havasu Cit, AZ · March 31, 1988

Date
March 31, 1988 · 09:39 local
Place
Lake Havasu Cit, AZ
Airport
Lake Havasu City
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
IAFA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N945B
Reported as
Beech 95B55
Reported engine
Continental IO520C
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,400 total90 in this make and model40 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.

A downdraft on a crosswind landing caused pilot to make a hard landing. Found a broken nose gear yoke assembly.

As the FAA filed it

A DOWNDRAFT ON A CROSSWIND LANDING CAUSED PILOT TO MAKE A HARD LANDING. FOUND A BROKEN NOSE GEAR YOKE ASSEMBLY.

Other reports on N945B · 1

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