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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172RG · Oceanside, CA · September 12, 1988

Date: September 12, 1988 · 09:15 local
Place: Oceanside, CA
Airport: Oceanside Municipal
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N6397V
Reported as: Cessna 172RG
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 5,000 total1 in this make and model80 in the last 90 days

N6397VRegistered now · Cessna 172RGS/N 172RG0659 · Built 1980 Airframe modelCessna 172RG 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

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Forgot to lower the landing gear and landed gear up. Throttle warning horn worked normally.

As the FAA filed it

FORGOT TO LOWER THE LANDING GEAR AND LANDED GEAR UP. THROTTLE WARNING HORN WORKED NORMALLY.

Other reports on N6397V · 2

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

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