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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech B24R · Somerset, NJ · April 30, 1978

Date
April 30, 1978 · 11:00 local
Place
Somerset, NJ
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N24038
Reported as
Beech B24R
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
300 total65 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Pilot inadvertently raised gear during circling approach. Landed gear up.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT INADVERTENTLY RAISED GEAR DURING CIRCLING APPROACH. LANDED GEAR UP.