# Incident 19940124000489I: Cessna 320D, Greer, SC, January 24, 1994

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 24, 1994, 12:07 local time
- Place: Greer, SC
- Airport: Greenville-Spartanburg
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 34.8957° N, 82.2189° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG INTL (GSP), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=34.8957&lon=-82.2189&mi=10
- Aircraft: N4150T, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N4150T-1996-11-05) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 320D (registry code 2074512, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-320d) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 320D
- People aboard: 4
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 2,500 total, 100 in this make and model, 120 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19940124000489I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

NARRATIVE: ON JANUARY 24, 1994, AT ABOUT 12:07 EASTERN STANDARD TIME, A CESSNA 320D, N4150T, OPERATED BY MOXIE TOWN INC. EXPERIENCED A GEAR UP LANDING AT GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG REGIONAL AIRPORT (GSP), GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA. THE PILOT, CHARLES FRANCIS GAWELL, AND THREE PASSENGERS WERE NOT INJURED, WHILE THE AIRPLANE SUSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE. THE PILOT REPORTED HE HEARD A LOUD BANG COME FROM THE NOSE LANDING GEAR AREA OF N4150T DURING GEAR RETRACTION. EXAMINATION OF THE LANDING GEAR SYSTEM REVEALED THE NOSE GEAR JAMMED IN THE WHEEL WELL BY LANDING GEAR DOORS. FURTHER EXAMINATION REVEALED THE NOSE GEAR DOOR RETRACTION LINKAGE WAS DISCONNECTED AT THE DOOR ATTACHMENT FITTINGS. AIRCRAFT FLIGHT AND MAINTENANCE RECORDS INDICATE THAT THIS WAS THE FIRST FLIGHT OF N4150T SINCE THE REMOVAL, ON JANUARY 14, 1994, OF AN OXYGEN BOTTLE MOUNTED IN THE NOSE WHEEL WELL.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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