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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech C35BEECH · Ft Wayne, IN · April 2, 1981

Date
April 2, 1981 · 19:30 local
Place
Ft Wayne, IN
Airport
Smith
Phase of flight
Aerial Taxi From Ldg/Rtrcrft
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N613D
Reported as
Beech C35BEECH
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
117 total4 in this make and model4 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.

Inadvertent landing gear retraction during taxi after landing. Squat switch corroded and malfuntioning.

As the FAA filed it

INADVERTENT LANDING GEAR RETRACTION DURING TAXI AFTER LANDING. SQUAT SWITCH CORRODED AND MALFUNTIONING.