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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-23 · Butler, MO · August 12, 1984

Date: August 12, 1984 · 16:00 local
Place: Butler, MO
Airport: Butler
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N3031P
Reported as: Piper PA23
Reported engine: Lycoming O320A1A
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 2,500 total500 in this make and model35 in the last 90 days

N3031PRegistration cancelled Apr 16, 2011 · Piper PA-23S/N 23-942 · Built 1957 Airframe modelPiper PA-23 Engine modelLycoming 0-320 seriesReciprocating

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.

Lowered the landing gear to dissipate some altitude then on downwind raised the gear by mistake. Landed gear up.

As the FAA filed it

LOWERED THE LANDING GEAR TO DISSIPATE SOME ALTITUDE THEN ON DOWNWIND RAISED THE GEAR BY MISTAKE. LANDED GEAR UP.