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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech STC45 · Detroit, MI · March 14, 1986

Date
March 14, 1986 · 12:58 local
Place
Detroit, MI
Airport
Willow Run
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
CKSA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4209V
Reported as
Beech STC45
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,600 total100 in this make and model150 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.

Gear could not be extended for landing. Misaligned gear door actuating mechanism caused gear to hang up.

As the FAA filed it

GEAR COULD NOT BE EXTENDED FOR LANDING. MISALIGNED GEAR DOOR ACTUATING MECHANISM CAUSED GEAR TO HANG UP.