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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Agusta A109A · Tampa, FL · January 17, 1991

Date
January 17, 1991 · 14:15 local
Place
Tampa, FL
Airport
Peter O Knight Airport
Phase of flight
Simulated Forced Landing/Tkof
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
SNCA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N97310
Reported as
Agusta A109A
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
11,500 total434 in this make and model166 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 landing gear on a simulated single engine helicopter landing. Helicopter landed on it belly.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT FORGOT TO LOWER LANDING GEAR ON A SIMULATED SINGLE ENGINE HELICOPTER LANDING. HELICOPTER LANDED ON IT BELLY.