# Incident 19981127039749I: Amtres SX300, St Louis, MO, November 27, 1998

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: November 27, 1998, 11:30 local time
- Place: St Louis, MO
- Airport: Spirit Of St Louis Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 38.6621° N, 90.6520° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS (SUS), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.6621&lon=-90.6520&mi=10
- Aircraft: N5SX, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N5SX-2023-01-14) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Fonville John C SWEARINGEN SX300 (registry code 05604AI, https://openairdocs.org/model/fonville-john-c-swearingen-sx300) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming IO-540 series (registry code 41530, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-io-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: AMTRES SX300
- Reported engine: LYC O540*
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 3,800 total, 332 in this make and model, 42 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19981127039749I

## Narrative

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

(-5)ON 11-27-98 MR. FONVILLE WAS ENROUTE FROM FT. WORTH, TX TO ST. CLAIR, M0.  WHEN MR. FONVILLE SELECTED THE LANDING GEAR DOWN FOR LANDING AT ST. CLAR MO.  HE RECEIVED AN UNSAFE LEFT MAIN GEAR INDICTATION.  FOLLOWING SEVERAL UNSUCESSFUL ATTEMPTS TO LOWER THE LANDING GEAR, MR. FONVILLE ELECTED TO PROCEED TO THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS AIRPORT BECAUSE OF SAFETY FACILITES.  MR. FONVILLE INTENTIONALLY LANDED HIS AIRCRAFT WITH THE LANDING GEAR IN THE UP POSITION FOR SAFETY REASONS.  THERE WERE NO INJURIES AND THE AIRCRAFT SUSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE.

## Other reports on N5SX (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 20210918015889A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20210918015889A), Sep 18, 2021: Fonville John C SWEARINGEN SX300 (N5SX), Buckeye, AZ, Substantial damage. On Saturday, 09/18/2021, at approximately 0824 MST, a swearingen SX300, N5SX, serial number FYP-040, experienced engine failure in flight and crashed landed…

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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