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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Beech 35C33 · Ft Lauderdale, FL · April 23, 1982

Date
April 23, 1982 · 09:45 local
Place
Ft Lauderdale, FL
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Final Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N9409S
Reported as
Beech 35C33
Reported engine
Continental IO470K
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,100 total200 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 landed gear up. Clock wiring on fire. Smoke in cockpit. Rivet sheared in gear down flag. Believed gear down.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED GEAR UP. CLOCK WIRING ON FIRE. SMOKE IN COCKPIT. RIVET SHEARED IN GEAR DOWN FLAG. BELIEVED GEAR DOWN.