# Incident 19990417026389I: Beech 65, Pierre, SD, April 17, 1999

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 17, 1999, 16:19 local time
- Place: Pierre, SD
- Airport: Pierre Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 44.3827° N, 100.2860° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at PIERRE RGNL (PIR), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=44.3827&lon=-100.2860&mi=10
- Aircraft: N5078G, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N5078G) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Beech 65 (registry code 1152802, https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-65) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming IO-720 series (registry code 41546, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-io-720-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BEECH 65
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 2,000 total, 800 in this make and model, 120 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19990417026389I

## Narrative

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

(-23) PILOT DON WETENKAMP TOOK OFF FROM ISABEL, SD, ON A SOD RUNWAY. DURING TAKE OFF HE NOTED THAT IT WAS EXTREMELY ROUGH AND NOISY.  CYCLED GEAR TWICE WHEN AIRBORNE, FIRST TIME OKAY, SECOND TIME IT HUNG UP.  HE COULD NOT ELECTRICALLY OR MANUALLY EXTEND THE GEAR.  HE THEN MADE AN EMERGENCY LANDING AT PIERRE, SD, ON RUNWAY 31 WITH NO INJURIES AND MINOR DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT.

## Other reports on N5078G (1)

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

- [Incident 20190913013099I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20190913013099I), Sep 13, 2019: Beech 65 (N5078G), Charlevoix, MI, Minor damage. On September 13, 2019 at 16:15 eastern daylight time, a Beechcraft BE65 queen air aircraft, N5078G, registered to and operated by a commercial air taxi…

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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