19881212063539I

Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 421 · Syracuse, NY · December 12, 1988

Date
December 12, 1988 · 15:24 local
Place
Syracuse, NY
Airport
Syracuse Hancock International
Phase of flight
Climb
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N122SW
Reported as
Cessna 421
Reported engine
Continental GTSIO520D
People aboard
5
Fatal injuries
0

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.

Unable to retract landing gear. Returned to airport. Found a frozen right main gear down lock switch.

As the FAA filed it

UNABLE TO RETRACT LANDING GEAR. RETURNED TO AIRPORT. FOUND A FROZEN RIGHT MAIN GEAR DOWN LOCK SWITCH.