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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech D55 · Put In Bay, OH · July 26, 1998

Date
July 26, 1998 · 14:30 local
Place
Put In Bay, OH
Airport
Put In Bay Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N511TE
Reported as
Beech D55
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
6,000 total6,000 in this make and model125 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.

The pilot stated: he lowered the landing gear, and was reflecting by (green light and barber pole between the pilot stations) upon landing, the left wing struck the runway(3) and veered off the side of the runway. The pilot was unaware of the left main gear not extending.

As the FAA filed it

THE PILOT STATED: HE LOWERED THE LANDING GEAR, AND WAS REFLECTING BY (GREEN LIGHT AND BARBER POLE BETWEEN THE PILOT STATIONS) UPON LANDING, THE LEFT WING STRUCK THE RUNWAY(3) AND VEERED OFF THE SIDE OF THE RUNWAY. THE PILOT WAS UNAWARE OF THE LEFT MAIN GEAR NOT EXTENDING.