# Incident 20040910023729I: Beech 58, West Memphis, AR, September 10, 2004

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 10, 2004, 09:45 local time
- Place: West Memphis, AR
- Airport: West Memphis Municipal Airport
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Touch And Go Landing
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 35.1351° N, 90.2344° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at WEST MEMPHIS MUNI (AWM), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=35.1351&lon=-90.2344&mi=10
- Aircraft: N444KG, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N444KG-2025-04-24) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Beech 58 (registry code 1152740, https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-58) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-520 series (registry code 17032, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-520-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BEECH 58
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 424 total, 120 in this make and model, 53 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20040910023729I

## Narrative

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

(-23) PILOT WAS ATTEMPTING A "TOUCH & GO" LANDING AFTER AN ILS APPROACH IN A BE-58 AIRCRAFT. PILOT MISTAKENLY RETRACTED THE GEAR INSTEAD OF THE FLAPS RESULTING IN A GEAR-UP LANDING. (PILOT READILY ADMITTED TO HIS MISTAKE. PILOT EXPLAINED THAT MOST OF HIS FLIGHT TIME IS IN A CE-72RG AIRCRAFT AND IN THAT AIRCRAFT THE FLAP SWITCH IS IN THE SAME LOCATION AS THE LANDING GEAR SWITCH IN THE BE-58 AIRCRAFT. SINCE THE INCIDENT THE PILOT HAS RECEIVED FLIGHT INSTRUCTION FROM A CERTIFIED FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR AND HAS PASSED A MULTI-ENGINE INSTRUMENT FLIGHT EVALUATION IN A BE-58 AIRCRAFT WITH A DESIGNATED PILOT EXAMINER. ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ )

## Other reports on N444KG (1)

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

- [Incident 20240714008349I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20240714008349I), Jul 14, 2024: Beech 58 (N444KG), Hot Springs, AR, Minor damage. On July 24, 2024, at approximately 14:25 local time, Beechcraft baron BE-58 was landing runway 13 at Hot Springs memorial airport (khot). The aircraft 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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