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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech P35BEECH · Coalinga, CA · July 4, 1989

Date
July 4, 1989 · 17:00 local
Place
Coalinga, CA
Airport
Harris Ranch Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N1532Z
Reported as
Beech P35BEECH
Reported engine
Continental IO470N
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,200 total600 in this make and model45 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.

Aborted initial landing. Raised gear to circle to land. Forgot to lower landing gear and landed with gear up.

As the FAA filed it

ABORTED INITIAL LANDING. RAISED GEAR TO CIRCLE TO LAND. FORGOT TO LOWER LANDING GEAR AND LANDED WITH GEAR UP.