19810110008049I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32R-300 · El Cajon, CA · January 10, 1981

Date
January 10, 1981 · 21:36 local
Place
El Cajon, CA
Airport
Gillespie Field
Phase of flight
Final Approach-IFR
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N88847
Reported as
Piper PA32R300
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
150 total25 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.

The pilot forgot to confirm that the landing gear was extened.

As the FAA filed it

THE PILOT FORGOT TO CONFIRM THAT THE LANDING GEAR WAS EXTENED.