- Date
- January 24, 1978
- Place
- Aberdeen, SD · ABERDEEN, SD
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5802VPiper PA-32R
- Status
- Completed · report March 2, 1978
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19780124000919A
- Case key
- 143500
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0028 78/1/24 ABERDEEN,SD PIPER PA-32R CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 47, 543 TIME - 1911 N5802V PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 55 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - ABERDEEN DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION MILBANK,SD ABERDEEN,SD TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION GEAR RETRACTED LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) AIRFRAME - LANDING GEAR: NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - BENT REMARKS- RT. L/G RETRACT ROD BENT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5802V
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32R
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Aberdeen
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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.
Other investigations on N5802V · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.
NTSB ERA15FA208Accident · 4 fatalField investigationFinal reportAtlanta, GAA partial loss of engine power due to contamination in the fuel manifold, which resulted in a collision with terrain shortly after takeoff.NTSB DEN84LA032Accident · No injuriesLimited investigationFinal reportRawlins, WYThe plt stated that the approach into Rawlins was normal but while on short final he realized that the acft was too low. The acft was actually lower then the runway which is located on a plateau. He attempted to correct but lost airspeed and landed short. The…