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Incident

FAA incident report · Amtrpt Pittsspecial · Tampa, FL · August 21, 1988

Date
August 21, 1988 · 21:00 local
Place
Tampa, FL
Airport
Vandenberg Airport
Phase of flight
Touch And Go Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N24DB
Reported as
Amtrpt Pittsspecial
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
500 total12 in this make and model20 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.

Made hard landing. Gear bunge cord may have snapped. Gear later collapsed on touchdown and aircraft slid to a stop.

As the FAA filed it

MADE HARD LANDING. GEAR BUNGE CORD MAY HAVE SNAPPED. GEAR LATER COLLAPSED ON TOUCHDOWN AND AIRCRAFT SLID TO A STOP.