# Incident 20050912025719I: Extra EA400, Palm Springs, CA, September 12, 2005

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 12, 2005, 08:42 local time
- Place: Palm Springs, CA
- Airport: Palm Springs Regional Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 33.8297° N, 116.5067° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at PALM SPRINGS INTL (PSP), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.8297&lon=-116.5067&mi=10
- Aircraft: N9494Z, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N9494Z) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Extra Flugzeugbau EA-400 (registry code 7021804, https://openairdocs.org/model/extra-flugzeugbau-ea-400) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental TSIO-550 series (registry code 17043, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-tsio-550-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: EXTRA EA400
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 2,500 total, 400 in this make and model, 90 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20050912025719I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) PILOT STATED THAT HIS AIRCRAFT AFTER LANDING AT PALMS SPRINGS AIRPORT, CA., EXPERIENCED NOSE WHEEL WOBBLE, SUBSEQUENTLY THE GEAR COLLAPSED. MECHANICS DISCOVERED THE NOSE WHEEL DRAG LINK BOLT SHEARED.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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