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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Conaer LA-4 · Escanaba, MI · August 30, 1987

Date: August 30, 1987 · 20:50 local
Place: Escanaba, MI
Airport: Delta County
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N7634L
Reported as: Conaer LA4
People aboard: 4
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 900 total50 in this make and model35 in the last 90 days

N7634LRegistered now · Lake LA-4S/N 407 · Built 1969 Airframe modelLake LA-4 Engine modelLycoming O&VO-360 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.

The aircraft landed with the wheels up. The pilot reported a distracting radio call and forgot to lower the gear.

As the FAA filed it

THE AIRCRAFT LANDED WITH THE WHEELS UP. THE PILOT REPORTED A DISTRACTING RADIO CALL AND FORGOT TO LOWER THE GEAR.