# Incident 20160120024049I: Aero Vodochody L39C, Byron, CA, January 20, 2016

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 20, 2016, 17:00 local time
- Place: Byron, CA
- Airport: Byron
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Rollout
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 37.8284° N, 121.6258° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at BYRON (C83), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.8284&lon=-121.6258&mi=10
- Aircraft: N439DH, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N439DH) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Aero Vodochody L39C (registry code 05620RN, https://openairdocs.org/model/aero-vodochody-l39c) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Motor-Sich AI-25TL (registry code 46025, https://openairdocs.org/engine/motor-sich-ai-25tl) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: AERO VODOCHODY L39C
- Reported engine: AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot, private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 1,500 total, 450 in this make and model, 2 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20160120024049I

## Narrative

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

PILOT HAD COMPLETED POST MAINTENANCE FLIGHT CHECKS AND WAS RETURNING TO BYRON AIRPORT. WHILE IN THE PATTERN FOR  LANDING ON RUNWAY 30, PILOT EXTENDED LANDING GEAR AND WING FLAPS. PILOT SAW  NO DOWN LOCK OR FLAP POSITION LIGHTS ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL INDICATING POSSIBLE MALFUNCTION OF THE AIRCRAFT  WARNING AND CAUTION LIGHT SYSTEM. PILOT VERIFIED THAT THE LANDING GEAR AND FLAP POSITION PINS, LOCATED ON THE WINGS AND FORWARD OF THE WINDSHIELD, WERE VISIBLE INDICATING THAT THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED. SHORTLY AFTER TOUCHDOWN, WITH FULL WEIGHT ON THE WHEELS, THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED, FOLLOWED BY THE COLLAPSE OF BOTH MAIN GEAR. AIRCRAFT SKIDDED TO A STOP. 1 POB, NO INJURIES.

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.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.