19890714049749I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 421B · Ashtabula, OH · July 14, 1989

Date
July 14, 1989 · 12:10 local
Place
Ashtabula, OH
Airport
Ashtabula County Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N12NC
Reported as
Cessna 421B
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,500 total5 in this make and model50 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.

Pilot forgot to lower gear and landed with gear up. Minor damage to aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT FORGOT TO LOWER GEAR AND LANDED WITH GEAR UP. MINOR DAMAGE TO AIRCRAFT.