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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 58 · Alabaster, AL · February 22, 1989

Date
February 22, 1989 · 19:40 local
Place
Alabaster, AL
Airport
Shelby County Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N81FD
Reported as
Beech 58
Reported engine
Continental IO520CB
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,000 total450 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 short due to wind gust forcing premature landing. Left crab caused side loading stress. Gear collapsed.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED SHORT DUE TO WIND GUST FORCING PREMATURE LANDING. LEFT CRAB CAUSED SIDE LOADING STRESS. GEAR COLLAPSED.

Other reports on N81FD · 1

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