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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-24-250 · Bessemer, AL · March 29, 1986

Date
March 29, 1986 · 17:45 local
Place
Bessemer, AL
Airport
Bessemer
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7242P
Reported as
Piper PA24250
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,306 total250 in this make and model20 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 gear up after thinking he saw 3 green lights on downwind.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED GEAR UP AFTER THINKING HE SAW 3 GREEN LIGHTS ON DOWNWIND.