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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-39 · Buffalo, NY · January 2, 1993

Date
January 2, 1993 · 20:30 local
Place
Buffalo, NY
Airport
Greater Buffalo International
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8945Y
Reported as
Piper PA39
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,800 total700 in this make and model46 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. Found retraction light switch out of adjustment. Gear warning system inoperative.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED GEAR UP. FOUND RETRACTION LIGHT SWITCH OUT OF ADJUSTMENT. GEAR WARNING SYSTEM INOPERATIVE.

Other reports on N8945Y · 2

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.