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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 76 · Lakeport, CA · March 19, 1998

Date
March 19, 1998 · 09:00 local
Place
Lakeport, CA
Airport
Lampson Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N245SW
Reported as
Beech 76
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,000 total200 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.

Narrative: the pilot landed fast and began to porpoise. The right main landing gear and prop were damaged. The pilot then initiated a go around. On the second landing the aircraft left the side of the runway due to the damaged landing gear.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: THE PILOT LANDED FAST AND BEGAN TO PORPOISE. THE RIGHT MAIN LANDING GEAR AND PROP WERE DAMAGED. THE PILOT THEN INITIATED A GO AROUND. ON THE SECOND LANDING THE AIRCRAFT LEFT THE SIDE OF THE RUNWAY DUE TO THE DAMAGED LANDING GEAR.