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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech S35 · Allentown, PA · June 12, 1988

Date
June 12, 1988 · 13:00 local
Place
Allentown, PA
Airport
Allentown Queen City Municipal
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N872T
Reported as
Beech S35
Reported engine
Continental IO520B
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,000 total1,000 in this make and model13 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.

After making a routine landing pilot inadvertently retracted the landing gear instead of the flaps.

As the FAA filed it

AFTER MAKING A ROUTINE LANDING PILOT INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED THE LANDING GEAR INSTEAD OF THE FLAPS.