19781221021439I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-30 · Dayton, OH · December 21, 1978

Date: December 21, 1978 · 17:50 local
Place: Dayton, OH
Airport: Cox Municipal
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N8808Y
Reported as: Piper PA30
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 500 total25 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N8808YRegistered now · Piper PA-30S/N 30-1965 · Built 1969 Airframe modelPiper PA-30 Engine modelLycoming IO-320 seriesReciprocating

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.

Plane had electrical failure and pilot landed gear up, assuming gear was down as she had put gear handle down.

As the FAA filed it

PLANE HAD ELECTRICAL FAILURE AND PILOT LANDED GEAR UP, ASSUMING GEAR WAS DOWN AS SHE HAD PUT GEAR HANDLE DOWN.