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Incident

FAA incident report · Bag JETSTM3101 · Hagerstown, MD · November 21, 1987

Date
November 21, 1987 · 01:35 local
Place
Hagerstown, MD
Airport
Washington County Regional
Phase of flight
Final Approach-IFR
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Operator
VNAA
Aircraft
N820JS
Reported as
Bag JETSTM3101
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
7,000 total1,000 in this make and model220 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.

Unable to get a safe down gear light. Emergency extension. Found microswitch on the landing gear indicator faulty.

As the FAA filed it

UNABLE TO GET A SAFE DOWN GEAR LIGHT. EMERGENCY EXTENSION. FOUND MICROSWITCH ON THE LANDING GEAR INDICATOR FAULTY.