19811023076729I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA28R200 · Santa Rosa, CA · October 23, 1981

Date
October 23, 1981 · 10:59 local
Place
Santa Rosa, CA
Airport
Sonoma Co
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
UNIA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N56981
Reported as
Piper PA28R200
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
13,000 total2,000 in this make and model250 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 forgot to extend landing after having aborted initial landing attempt due to conflicting traffic.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT FORGOT TO EXTEND LANDING AFTER HAVING ABORTED INITIAL LANDING ATTEMPT DUE TO CONFLICTING TRAFFIC.