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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 35-A33 · Bandon, OR · August 7, 2023

Date
August 7, 2023 · 17:10 local
Place
Bandon, OR
Airport
Bandon State
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N974B
Reported as
Beech 35-A33
Reported engine
Continental I0-470 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Commercial pilot

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.

Aircraft flew uneventfully from kttd to S05 via koth flew a left hand pattern and landed on runway 34. Landing was very smooth and had slowed to near taxi speed when suddenly the nose gear unlocked andretracted and the propeller hit the runway near the centerline. The airport was closed untin the aircraft was recovered from the runway.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT FLEW UNEVENTFULLY FROM KTTD TO S05 VIA KOTH FLEW A LEFT HAND PATTERN AND LANDED ON RUNWAY 34. LANDING WAS VERY SMOOTH AND HAD SLOWED TO NEAR TAXI SPEED WHEN SUDDENLY THE NOSE GEAR UNLOCKED ANDRETRACTED AND THE PROPELLER HIT THE RUNWAY NEAR THE CENTERLINE. THE AIRPORT WAS CLOSED UNTIN THE AIRCRAFT WAS RECOVERED FROM THE RUNWAY.