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Incident

FAA incident report · Amtrru VARIEZE · Palo Alto, CA · September 30, 1987

Date
September 30, 1987 · 13:26 local
Place
Palo Alto, CA
Airport
Santa Clara County
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N10ZM
Reported as
Amtrru Varieze
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,175 total250 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.

The aircraft landed with the nose wheel up. The pilot had overridden the warning system and forgot to lower gear.

As the FAA filed it

THE AIRCRAFT LANDED WITH THE NOSE WHEEL UP. THE PILOT HAD OVERRIDDEN THE WARNING SYSTEM AND FORGOT TO LOWER GEAR.