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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech B35 · Fort Smith, AR · September 28, 1985

Date
September 28, 1985 · 07:30 local
Place
Fort Smith, AR
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8853A
Reported as
Beech B35
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
260 total0 in this make and model30 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.

Landed on grass with gear down after gear retracted at rotation. Gear selector could be moved without detent.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED ON GRASS WITH GEAR DOWN AFTER GEAR RETRACTED AT ROTATION. GEAR SELECTOR COULD BE MOVED WITHOUT DETENT.

Other reports on N8853A · 1

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