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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 310K · Midland, TX · March 13, 1989

Date
March 13, 1989 · 13:05 local
Place
Midland, TX
Airport
Midland International Airport
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3833X
Reported as
Cessna 310K
Reported engine
Continental IO470V
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,150 total100 in this make and model150 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.

Pop noise on gear extension. Nose gear would not lock down. Landed on mains nose gear collapsed.

As the FAA filed it

POP NOISE ON GEAR EXTENSION. NOSE GEAR WOULD NOT LOCK DOWN. LANDED ON MAINS NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED.