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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-31T1 · Birmingham, AL · July 13, 1990

Date
July 13, 1990 · 15:30 local
Place
Birmingham, AL
Airport
Birmingham Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N977CP
Reported as
Piper PA31T1
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,000 total300 in this make and model60 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.

Almost landed gear up as horn sounded and heard a scraping sound. Made a go around and landed safely on second try.

As the FAA filed it

ALMOST LANDED GEAR UP AS HORN SOUNDED AND HEARD A SCRAPING SOUND. MADE A GO AROUND AND LANDED SAFELY ON SECOND TRY.