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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-31-325 · Odessa, TX · September 24, 2008

Date
September 24, 2008 · 09:55 local
Place
Odessa, TX
Airport
Odessa-Schlemeyer Field
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N207MD
Reported as
Piper PA31325
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,900 total300 in this make and model40 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) On approach to Odessa-Schlemeyer airport the pilot became distracted and failed to lower landing gear resulting in a gear-up landing.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) ON APPROACH TO ODESSA-SCHLEMEYER AIRPORT THE PILOT BECAME DISTRACTED AND FAILED TO LOWER LANDING GEAR RESULTING IN A GEAR-UP LANDING.