20091209025749I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-24-260 · Casper, WY · December 9, 2009

Date
December 9, 2009 · 14:45 local
Place
Casper, WY
Airport
Natrona County International. Airport
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9360P
Reported as
Piper PA-24-260
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
5,000 total200 in this make and model27 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.

Prior to landing pilot reported to cpr tower that both normal and manual landing gear extension systems were inoperative. Pilot asked tower for visual confirmation of gear position. While pilot was pumping manual extension handle tower reported landing gear were moving up and down but not locked in either position. After expressing concern about fuel exhaustion pilot landed aircraft with landing gear not down and locked.

As the FAA filed it

PRIOR TO LANDING PILOT REPORTED TO CPR TOWER THAT BOTH NORMAL AND MANUAL LANDING GEAR EXTENSION SYSTEMS WERE INOPERATIVE. PILOT ASKED TOWER FOR VISUAL CONFIRMATION OF GEAR POSITION. WHILE PILOT WAS PUMPING MANUAL EXTENSION HANDLE TOWER REPORTED LANDING GEAR WERE MOVING UP AND DOWN BUT NOT LOCKED IN EITHER POSITION. AFTER EXPRESSING CONCERN ABOUT FUEL EXHAUSTION PILOT LANDED AIRCRAFT WITH LANDING GEAR NOT DOWN AND LOCKED.

Other reports on N9360P · 3

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.