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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 421C · Dallas, TX · March 24, 1989

Date
March 24, 1989 · 15:00 local
Place
Dallas, TX
Airport
Redbird Airport
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N777BE
Reported as
Cessna 421C
Reported engine
Continental GTSIO520L
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,800 total450 in this make and model90 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.

Left main gear folded while taxiing to ramp after landing. Down lock mechanism had failed within retract cylinder.

As the FAA filed it

LEFT MAIN GEAR FOLDED WHILE TAXIING TO RAMP AFTER LANDING. DOWN LOCK MECHANISM HAD FAILED WITHIN RETRACT CYLINDER.

Other reports on N777BE · 1

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