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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-31-350 · Somerville, NJ · August 3, 1988

Date
August 3, 1988 · 18:00 local
Place
Somerville, NJ
Airport
Somerset
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N850ST
Reported as
Piper PA31350
Reported engine
Lycoming TIO540J2BD
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
7,400 total250 in this make and model270 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.

Pilot forgot to lower landing gear. Landed with gear up. Minor damage to aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT FORGOT TO LOWER LANDING GEAR. LANDED WITH GEAR UP. MINOR DAMAGE TO AIRCRAFT.

Other reports on N850ST · 5

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.