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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech E55 · Savannah, GA · March 17, 1982

Date
March 17, 1982 · 16:46 local
Place
Savannah, GA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N777BH
Reported as
Beech E55
Reported engine
Continental IO520C
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,407 total45 in this make and model210 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.

Left main gear would not extend. Pilot retracted gear, landed gear up. Left up lock jammed.

As the FAA filed it

LEFT MAIN GEAR WOULD NOT EXTEND. PILOT RETRACTED GEAR, LANDED GEAR UP. LEFT UP LOCK JAMMED.