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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech H-18 · Mobile, AL · March 7, 1988

Date: March 7, 1988 · 11:00 local
Place: Mobile, AL
Airport: Bates Field
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N50225
Reported as: Beech H18
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 1,920 total142 in this make and model175 in the last 90 days

N50225Registered now · Beech H-18S/N BA-619 Airframe modelBeech H-18 Engine modelPratt & Whitney R-985 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.

Landed gear up. Gear down lights all indicated green. Found a malfunctioning landing gear switch.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED GEAR UP. GEAR DOWN LIGHTS ALL INDICATED GREEN. FOUND A MALFUNCTIONING LANDING GEAR SWITCH.