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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA31350 · Farmingdale, NY · January 4, 1983

Date
January 4, 1983 · 11:45 local
Place
Farmingdale, NY
Airport
Republic
Phase of flight
Final Approach
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
AAEA
Aircraft
N27477
Reported as
Piper PA31350
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,600 total297 in this make and model267 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.

Unable to lower landing gear. Gear pumped down manually. Landing was normal. Low hydraulic fluid.

As the FAA filed it

UNABLE TO LOWER LANDING GEAR. GEAR PUMPED DOWN MANUALLY. LANDING WAS NORMAL. LOW HYDRAULIC FLUID.