"Tman" x@x wrote in message
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And on the converse... I'm wondering how some stuff that happens around
doesn't turn up in at the NTSB...

Let's see... Bellanca veers off the runway, collapses nosegear, prop strike
and is totalled (2007).
Piper loses electrical power and lands at Bethlehem, PA, gear collapses on the
runway, scraping a lot of aluminum.

A close reading of Part 830 will supply your answers to the above. Damage to
damage to props and landing gear is not considered "substantial damage" for
purposes of reporting.

Lastly, a pilot on final into Westerly, RI, loses engine power and ditches
into a river....

Engine failure on a light plane is not a reportable event.


What gives? Aren't these mandatory reporting?

No.


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Vaughn

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