19860105003249I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 737/ · Helena, MT · January 5, 1986

Date
January 5, 1986 · 14:40 local
Place
Helena, MT
Airport
Helena
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
WALA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4512W
Reported as
Boeing 737/
Fatal injuries
0

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.

Aircraft returned when main gear would not retract. Found right gear door would not come up.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT RETURNED WHEN MAIN GEAR WOULD NOT RETRACT. FOUND RIGHT GEAR DOOR WOULD NOT COME UP.