- Date
- December 16, 1968
- Place
- Torrance, CA · TORRANCE, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6713PPiper PA-24
- Status
- Completed · report April 1, 1969
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 191973
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4729 68/12/16 TORRANCE,CALIF PIPER PA-24 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 38, 316 TIME - 1759 N6713P PX- 0 0 0 PRACTICE TOTAL HOURS, 7 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - TORRANCE TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION WHEELS-UP LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) AIRFRAME - LANDING GEAR: NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - BUCKLED MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - PREVIOUS DAMAGE MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - JAMMED EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - PRECAUTIONARY LANDING ON AIRPORT SUSPECTED OR KNOWN AIRCRAFT DAMAGE REMARKS- NOSE GR ALIGNER GUIDE BUCKLED,CAUSED GR TO BE MISALIGNED WHEN RETRACTED AND IT JAMMED IN GR WELL.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6713P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Torrance