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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA60601 · Abilene, TX · November 1, 2004

Date
November 1, 2004 · 18:35 local
Place
Abilene, TX
Airport
Abilene Regional Airport
Phase of flight
Climb
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
TZRA
Aircraft
N602TE
Reported as
Piper PA60601
Reported engine
Lycoming IO540S1A5
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0

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.

(-23) Aircraft departed Abilene, Texas then returned and landed without incident. The aircraft returned due to the nose landing not retracting. The nose landing gear strut was found to be low and was reserviced and ops checked good.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) AIRCRAFT DEPARTED ABILENE, TEXAS THEN RETURNED AND LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT. THE AIRCRAFT RETURNED DUE TO THE NOSE LANDING NOT RETRACTING. THE NOSE LANDING GEAR STRUT WAS FOUND TO BE LOW AND WAS RESERVICED AND OPS CHECKED GOOD.