19881214068799I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA31 · Manchester, NH · December 14, 1988

Date
December 14, 1988 · 09:55 local
Place
Manchester, NH
Airport
Manchester Airport-Grenier Indus
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Operator
FTSA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N16TA
Reported as
Piper PA31
Reported engine
Lycoming TIO540A2B
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
20,000 total2,500 in this make and model200 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.

Landed aircraft with the landing gear fully retracted. Landing gear doors were in the closed position.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED AIRCRAFT WITH THE LANDING GEAR FULLY RETRACTED. LANDING GEAR DOORS WERE IN THE CLOSED POSITION.