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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 35BEECH · Santa Monica, CA · February 14, 1981

Date
February 14, 1981 · 11:57 local
Place
Santa Monica, CA
Airport
Santa Monica
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7235B
Reported as
Beech 35BEECH
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,000 total100 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 intended to retract flaps but moved gear switch instead. Aircraft weight on gear was light. Gear retracted.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT INTENDED TO RETRACT FLAPS BUT MOVED GEAR SWITCH INSTEAD. AIRCRAFT WEIGHT ON GEAR WAS LIGHT. GEAR RETRACTED.

Other reports on N7235B · 1

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