Aircraft gear collapsed on landing.
Date: 01-SEP-22
Time: 23:20:00Z
Regis#: N531CT
Aircraft Make: FLIGHT DESIGN GMBH
Aircraft Model: CTSW
Event Type: INCIDENT
Highest Injury: NONE
Aircraft Missing: No
Damage: UNKNOWN
Activity: PERSONAL
Flight Phase: LANDING (LDG)
Operation: 91
City: BYRON
State: CALIFORNIA
A small airplane had a rougher-than-expected landing at Byron Airport, Thursday, September 1 because of a mechanical malfunction.
When emergency crews arrived on the scene just after 6:43 p.m., they found a small, two-seat plane, nose down and leaking fuel. The pilot, who was the lone occupant of the aircraft, got himself out of the plane and was not injured, officials said.
The Flight Design CTSW sustained damage to its right rear landing gear, propeller, and front landing gear. Fuel leaking from the right wing of the aircraft prompted a hazmat response for clean-up, according to officials on the scene.
The pilot, who had just purchased the plane, said he was relieved to be walking away from the ordeal unharmed.
The cause of the malfunction was not yet known by officials on the scene.
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