- Date
- December 6, 1978
- Place
- Palm Beach, FL · PALM BEACH, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N189RBeech 18
- Status
- Completed · report September 25, 1979
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19781206042039A
- Case key
- 138400
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3886 78/12/6 PALM BEACH,FL BEECH 18 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 58, 10000 TIME - 1630 N189R PX- 0 0 0 BUSINESS TOTAL HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - PALM BEACH INTL DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION PALM BEACH,FL LANTANA,FL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION GEAR COLLAPSED TAKEOFF: RUN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED
Aircraft
- Registration
- N189R
- Reported as
- Beech 18
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Palm Beach Intl
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.