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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-31-325 · Merced, CA · May 15, 1982

Date: May 15, 1982 · 17:31 local
Place: Merced, CA
Airport: Merced
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N6ET
Reported as: Piper PA31325
People aboard: 5
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 4,500 total1,400 in this make and model30 in the last 90 days

N6ETRegistration cancelled Aug 16, 1990 · Piper PA-31-325S/N 317612012 Airframe modelPiper PA-31-325

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.

Distracted by landing on temporary taxiway runway. Landed gear up.

As the FAA filed it

DISTRACTED BY LANDING ON TEMPORARY TAXIWAY RUNWAY. LANDED GEAR UP.

Other reports on N6ET · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

Accident 19880403007369AUnauth Low Level Opns · Oakland, CAObserved to lose control and crash while flying below clouds. Had heart disease and failing health prior to flight.Apr 3, 1988 · Destroyed · 5 fatal