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Date
October 16, 1989 · 13:15 local
Place
Mineral Wells, TX
Airport
Mineral Wells Airport
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N10CU
Reported as
Beech D50
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,200 total1,000 in this make and model20 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.
Inadvertently retracted the landing gear instead of the flaps on rollout.
As the FAA filed it
INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED THE LANDING GEAR INSTEAD OF THE FLAPS ON ROLLOUT.