# Incident 20041128030669I: Piper PA24250, Porterville, CA, November 28, 2004

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: November 28, 2004, 10:25 local time
- Place: Porterville, CA
- Airport: Porterville Municipal Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 36.0296° N, 119.0627° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at PORTERVILLE MUNI (PTV), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=36.0296&lon=-119.0627&mi=10
- Aircraft: N7326P, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N7326P) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-24-250 (registry code 7102404, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-24-250) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-540 series (registry code 41532, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA24250
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 6,500 total, 8 in this make and model, 40 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20041128030669I

## Narrative

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

(-23) VFR FLIGHT FROM O63-PTV. PILOT REPORTED THE GEAR WOULD NOT EXTEND PRIOR TO LANDING. HE FOLLOWED EMERGENCY GEAR EXTENSION PROCEDURE AND REPORTED THE GEAR LIGHT INDICATED DOWN AND LOCKED. UPON LANDING, GEAR REPORTEDLY COLLAPSED. ON 11-30-04 INSPECTORS FROM THE FRESNO FSDO TRAVELED TO PTV FOR ON-SCENE INVESTIGATION. THE AIRCRAFT HAD BEEN MOVED TO A HANGAR AND PLACED ON JACKS. MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL PERFORMED AN EMERGENCY LANDING GEAR PROCEDURE AND THE GEAR EXTENDED AND LOCKED DOWN. MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL THEN PERFORMED NORMAL LANDING GEAR RETRACTION AND EXTENSION AND THE GEAR OPERATED NORMALLY. ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^

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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