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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech D45 · Olive Branch, MS · November 8, 1981

Date
November 8, 1981 · 16:15 local
Place
Olive Branch, MS
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5358G
Reported as
Beech D45
Reported engine
Continental IO470*
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,038 total62 in this make and model8 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 retracted gear while considering aborting landing. Decided to land and forgot to lower gear again.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT RETRACTED GEAR WHILE CONSIDERING ABORTING LANDING. DECIDED TO LAND AND FORGOT TO LOWER GEAR AGAIN.