19971219044279I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28R-200 · Tilden, NE · December 19, 1997

Date: December 19, 1997 · 13:30 local
Place: Tilden, NE
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N44104
Reported as: Piper PA28R200
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 221 total145 in this make and model29 in the last 90 days

N44104Registered now · Piper PA-28R-200S/N 28R-7435295 Airframe modelPiper PA-28R-200 Engine modelLycoming I0360 seriesReciprocating

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: aircraft landed with landing gear retracted. No injuries to personnel. Minor damage. Landing gear operations check completed satisfactorily. The aircraft landed with landing gear retracted due to the passenger disturbing the pilot with questions during the critical landing phase of flight. The pilot missed the gear section of his landing check list.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: AIRCRAFT LANDED WITH LANDING GEAR RETRACTED. NO INJURIES TO PERSONNEL. MINOR DAMAGE. LANDING GEAR OPERATIONS CHECK COMPLETED SATISFACTORILY. THE AIRCRAFT LANDED WITH LANDING GEAR RETRACTED DUE TO THE PASSENGER DISTURBING THE PILOT WITH QUESTIONS DURING THE CRITICAL LANDING PHASE OF FLIGHT. THE PILOT MISSED THE GEAR SECTION OF HIS LANDING CHECK LIST.