20060513016919I

Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Beech S35 · St Petersburg, FL · May 13, 2006

Date
May 13, 2006 · 09:39 local
Place
St Petersburg, FL
Airport
Albert Whitted Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N8851M
Reported as
Beech S35
Reported engine
Continental IO520BA
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,140 total450 in this make and model2 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) Partial gear extension. Manual gear crank caught up in a cloth flight bag handle causing the gear motor fuse to pop. This prevented full gear extension.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) PARTIAL GEAR EXTENSION. MANUAL GEAR CRANK CAUGHT UP IN A CLOTH FLIGHT BAG HANDLE CAUSING THE GEAR MOTOR FUSE TO POP. THIS PREVENTED FULL GEAR EXTENSION.