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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech E35 · Richmond, VA · July 17, 2003

Date
July 17, 2003 · 22:07 local
Place
Richmond, VA
Airport
Chesterfield County Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3280C
Reported as
Beech E35
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,400 total400 in this make and model15 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.

(-23) Landed gear up at fci. No evidence of gear collapse. Gear functioned normally and the system showed no damage indicative of a gear collapse. Pilot failed to lower landing gear.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) LANDED GEAR UP AT FCI. NO EVIDENCE OF GEAR COLLAPSE. GEAR FUNCTIONED NORMALLY AND THE SYSTEM SHOWED NO DAMAGE INDICATIVE OF A GEAR COLLAPSE. PILOT FAILED TO LOWER LANDING GEAR.