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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28RT-201 · Long Beach, CA · July 6, 1983

Date
July 6, 1983 · 16:00 local
Place
Long Beach, CA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Practice Training Manuevers
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N28416
Reported as
Piper PA28RT201
Reported engine
Lycoming IO360C1C6
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,700 total250 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.

Noticed gear unsafe light during a gear down practice maneuver. Unable to correct. Landed ok. Microswitch defect.

As the FAA filed it

NOTICED GEAR UNSAFE LIGHT DURING A GEAR DOWN PRACTICE MANEUVER. UNABLE TO CORRECT. LANDED OK. MICROSWITCH DEFECT.