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Incident

FAA incident report · EMB EMB120 · Charleston, WV · October 31, 1991

Date
October 31, 1991 · 07:58 local
Place
Charleston, WV
Airport
Yeager
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
ASOA
Aircraft
N281AS
Reported as
EMB EMB120
People aboard
11
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
9,000 total5,000 in this make and model250 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.

Unable to retract gear. Returned. Landed safely. Found defective squat switch.

As the FAA filed it

UNABLE TO RETRACT GEAR. RETURNED. LANDED SAFELY. FOUND DEFECTIVE SQUAT SWITCH.