# Incident 19981008041539I: Beech P35, San Antonio, TX, October 8, 1998

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: October 8, 1998, 19:43 local time
- Place: San Antonio, TX
- Airport: San Antonio International
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 29.5340° N, 98.4691° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at SAN ANTONIO INTL (SAT), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=29.5340&lon=-98.4691&mi=10
- Aircraft: N8538M, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N8538M) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Beech P35 (registry code 1151530, https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-p35) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental I0-470 series (registry code 17027, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-i0-470-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BEECH P35
- Reported engine: CONT IO470N
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 4,625 total, 1,200 in this make and model, 26 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19981008041539I

## Narrative

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

(-5)ON OCT. 8, 1998, PILOT, WILLIAM C WHITE WAS THE PIC OF A BEECH BANANZA,, N8538M, IN ROUTE FORM CORPUS CHRISTI, TX, TO SAN ANTONIO, TX. THIS AIRCRAFT LANDED AT 7:43 PM ON RUNWAY 12R AT SAT WITH ONE PASSENGER, GEAR UP, NO INJUIRES AND NO FIRES.  MR. WHITE WAS ON BASE LEG FOR RUNWAY 12R LANDING SAT WITH LANDING GEAR EXTENDED AND THE PRE-LANDING CHECK LIST COMPLETE.  HE WAS GIVEN CLEARANCE TO EXTEND AND FOLLOW A MD-80 WHO WAS ON A FOUR MILE FINAL.  HE THEN RETRACTED THE GEAR, CLIMBED, AND EXTENDED DOWN BASE LEG.  IN POSITION ON FINAL, HE STATED, HE REPEATED THE PRE-LANDING CHECK LIST AND REINITIATED THE GEAR SWITCH WHILE PROCEEDING DOWN THE NORMAL APPROACH WITH A 1/4 FLAPS.  AFTER PASSING THE MIDDLE MARKER ON THE GLIDE SLOPE, HE TURNED ON THE LANDING LIGHT ON THE NLG STRUT.  HE THEN, RETARDED THE THROTTLE NOTING THE LANDING GEAR WARNING HORN AS HE MISTAKEN FOR THE MIDDLE MARKER BEACON TONE.  CROSSING THE RUNWAY THRESHOLD, HE LANDED WITH GEAR UP AND FLAPS AT FULL.  HE THEN, NOTIFIED ATC WHO IN TURN DISPATCHED THE AIRPORT FIRE DEPARTMENT AND AIRPORT POLICE.

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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