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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-34-200T · Fort Drum, FL · October 27, 1990

Date
October 27, 1990 · 17:20 local
Place
Fort Drum, FL
Airport
Indian Hammock Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2898C
Reported as
Piper PA34200T
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,016 total3,000 in this make and model249 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 gear up. Appears that normal wear may have prevented the manual release and extension of the landing gear.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED GEAR UP. APPEARS THAT NORMAL WEAR MAY HAVE PREVENTED THE MANUAL RELEASE AND EXTENSION OF THE LANDING GEAR.