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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 76 · Danville, IL · January 25, 1988

Date: January 25, 1988 · 09:35 local
Place: Danville, IL
Airport: Vermilion County
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N6638H
Reported as: Beech 76
Reported engine: Lycoming O360A1G
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 11,000 total20 in this make and model150 in the last 90 days

N6638HRegistered now · Beech 76S/N ME-266 · Built 1979 Airframe modelBeech 76 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.

Left cabin door opened on climbout. Returned. Forgot to lower landing gear and landed gear up.

As the FAA filed it

LEFT CABIN DOOR OPENED ON CLIMBOUT. RETURNED. FORGOT TO LOWER LANDING GEAR AND LANDED GEAR UP.