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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 35BEECH · Palo Alto, CA · August 1, 1997

Date
August 1, 1997 · 15:45 local
Place
Palo Alto, CA
Airport
Palo Alto Airport-Santa Clara Cou
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3934N
Reported as
Beech 35BEECH
Reported engine
Continental E2252
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,700 total450 in this make and model35 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.

Retracted landing gear by mistake landing. Left main folded turning off runway.

As the FAA filed it

RETRACTED LANDING GEAR BY MISTAKE LANDING. LEFT MAIN FOLDED TURNING OFF RUNWAY.