19790108001439I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech D18S · El Cajon, CA · January 8, 1979

Date
January 8, 1979 · 09:00 local
Place
El Cajon, CA
Airport
Gillespie
Phase of flight
In Traffic Pattern-Circling
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N802H
Reported as
Beech D18S
People aboard
8
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
15,000 total4,000 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 unable to lower gear, got it down manually. A wire was shorted out in the up limit switch, blew fuses.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT UNABLE TO LOWER GEAR, GOT IT DOWN MANUALLY. A WIRE WAS SHORTED OUT IN THE UP LIMIT SWITCH, BLEW FUSES.

Other reports on N802H · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.