# Incident 19800223027139I: Piper PA30, Bessemer, AL, February 23, 1980

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 23, 1980, 15:00 local time
- Place: Bessemer, AL
- Airport: Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 33.4018° N, 86.9544° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Bessemer, AL, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.4018&lon=-86.9544&mi=10
- Aircraft: N7443Y, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N7443Y-1984-01-07) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-30 (registry code 7103002, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-30) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA30
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 7,000 total, 3,000 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19800223027139I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

PILOT FAILED TO PUT GEAR DOWN.

## Other reports on N7443Y (1)

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

- [Accident 19810301006299A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19810301006299A), Mar 1, 1981: Piper PA30 (N7443Y), Autaugaville, AL, Destroyed. Pilot continued flight into weather and aircraft crashed during radar vectors for instrument approach.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.