20090319004509I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-44-180 · Atlantic City, NJ · March 19, 2009

Date
March 19, 2009 · 16:00 local
Place
Atlantic City, NJ
Airport
Atlantic City International
Phase of flight
Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9256X
Reported as
Piper PA44180
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
6,000 total600 in this make and model150 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) privacy data omitted stated that he was destracted by the inoperative ILS identifier signal on the approach. When he broke out of the clouds at 800 ft above the runway, he said he just forgot to lower the landing gear.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ STATED THAT HE WAS DESTRACTED BY THE INOPERATIVE ILS IDENTIFIER SIGNAL ON THE APPROACH. WHEN HE BROKE OUT OF THE CLOUDS AT 800 FT ABOVE THE RUNWAY, HE SAID HE JUST FORGOT TO LOWER THE LANDING GEAR.