- Date
- July 28, 1970
- Place
- Washington, DC · WASHINGTON, DC
- Injuries
- 39 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N259PNihon YS-11A
- Status
- Completed · report November 2, 1970
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 108008
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4-0034 70/7/28 WASHINGTON,DC NIHON YS-11A CR- 0 0 4 SCHED DOM PASSG SRV AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 1629 N259P PX- 0 0 35 49, 17000 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-MINOR OT- 0 0 0 1000 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. CLASSIFIED AS INCIDENT NAME OF AIRPORT - NATIONAL OPERATOR - PIEDMONT AVIATION,INC. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION ATLANTA,GA WASHINGTON,DC TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION GEAR RETRACTED LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED GEAR
Aircraft
- Registration
- N259P
- Reported as
- Nihon YS-11A
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo prop
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Airport
- National
N259PRegistration cancelled Sep 20, 2013 · Nihon YS-11A-500Airframe modelNihon YS-11A-500Engine modelRolls-Royce DART-542 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Other investigations on N259P · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.