# Incident 20020209002529I: Piper PA24180, Pell City, AL, February 9, 2002

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 9, 2002, 12:19 local time
- Place: Pell City, AL
- Airport: St Clair County Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 33.5588° N, 86.2491° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at ST CLAIR COUNTY (PLR), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.5588&lon=-86.2491&mi=10
- Aircraft: N7807P, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N7807P-2019-09-09) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-24 (registry code 7102402, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-24) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming O&VO-360 series (registry code 41514, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-o-vo-360-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA24180
- Reported engine: LYC O360A1D
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 400 total, 40 in this make and model, 12 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20020209002529I

## Narrative

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

(-23) PILOT STATES WHILE ON APPROACH FOR LANDING AT PELL CITY AIRPORT, TRIED TO EXTEND GEAR AND IT SOUNDED AS THOUGH GEAR CAME DOWN. DID NOT VISUALLY VERIFY GEAR DOWN INDICATION DUE TO LIGHTING CONDITIONS, AND DOES NOT KNOW IF GEAR WARNING SOUNDED. GEAR WAS PARTIALLY DOWN AND COLLAPSED ON LANDING WITH MINOR DAMAGE. LEFT AND RIGHT MAIN GEAR BRAKE ASSEMBLIES SHOW DAMAGE CAUSED BY CONTACT WITH RUNWAY SURFACE. PILOT STATES THAT HE DID NOT TRY MANUAL EXTENSION OF LANDING GEAR, BELIEVING GEAR WAS DOWN. AFTER COMING TO A COMPLETE STOP, WHILE EXITING, NOTICED LANDING GEAR MOTOR CIRCUIT BREAKER WAS POPPED.

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