# Incident 20090406008789I: Piper PA34200, Fort Lauderdal, FL, April 6, 2009

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 6, 2009, 20:44 local time
- Place: Fort Lauderdal, FL
- Airport: Fort Lauderdale Executive
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 26.1973° N, 80.1707° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at FORT LAUDERDALE EXEC (FXE), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=26.1973&lon=-80.1707&mi=10
- Aircraft: N888CS (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA34200
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 9,259 total, 414 in this make and model, 56 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20090406008789I

## Narrative

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

(-23)  RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE ATLANTA COMMUNICATIONS CENTER AT 2215 HRS.  ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ FROM THE NTSB WAS TELECONFERENCED WITH MYSELF, FXE TOWER PERSONNEL AND THE AIRCRAFT OCCUPANTS.  NTSB AND FSDO-19 WERE NOT NOTIFIED UNTIL APPROXIMATELY TWO HOURS AFTER THE INCIDENT HAD OCCURRED.  A PIPER PA-34-200, AIRCRAFT REGISTRATION N888CS, LANDED GEAR UP AT FXE.  INSTRUCTOR AND STUDENT WERE PRACTICING AND PERFORMING PATTERNS AT POMPANO BEACH AIRPARK (PMP).  AIRCRAFT DEPARTED PMP AIRSPACE AT APPROXIMATELY 2033 HOURS.  FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR WAS PERFORMING A GPS APPROACH TO FXE, RUNWAY 26.  AIRCRAFT LANDED AT APPROXIMATELY 2044 HOURS WITH THE GEAR UP.  THIS FLIGHT WAS A PART 91 INSTRUCTION/TRAINING FLIGHT.  NTSB, SMITH CONFIRMED WITH THE FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR THAT HE FAILED TO PERFORMED THE LANDING CHECK LIST.  ALSO, ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ CONFIRMED WITH THE INSTRUCTOR THAT THERE WERE NO MECHANICAL ISSUES WITH THE AIRCRAFT.

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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