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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-34 · Starkville, MS · February 2, 1994

Date: February 2, 1994 · 17:45 local
Place: Starkville, MS
Airport: George M Bryan Airport
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Operator: EWTA
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N628FM
Reported as: Piper PA34*
People aboard: 3
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 9,100 total6,000 in this make and model75 in the last 90 days

N628FMRegistered now · Piper PA-34S/N 34-7870060 Airframe modelPiper PA-34

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.

Narrative: flight was an instructional flight, landing gear was selected down on final approach. The landing gear did not extend due to a tripped landing gear control / warning circuit breaker. The circuit breaker or the absense of gear safe/locked lights was not recognized by either pilot. The aircraft was landed with the gear retracted. Investigation continues concerning the landing gear control/warning circuitry and circuit breaker.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: FLIGHT WAS AN INSTRUCTIONAL FLIGHT, LANDING GEAR WAS SELECTED DOWN ON FINAL APPROACH. THE LANDING GEAR DID NOT EXTEND DUE TO A TRIPPED LANDING GEAR CONTROL / WARNING CIRCUIT BREAKER. THE CIRCUIT BREAKER OR THE ABSENSE OF GEAR SAFE/LOCKED LIGHTS WAS NOT RECOGNIZED BY EITHER PILOT. THE AIRCRAFT WAS LANDED WITH THE GEAR RETRACTED. INVESTIGATION CONTINUES CONCERNING THE LANDING GEAR CONTROL/WARNING CIRCUITRY AND CIRCUIT BREAKER.