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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beechcraft 76 · Meridianville, AL · January 4, 2010

Date
January 4, 2010 · 12:30 local
Place
Meridianville, AL
Airport
Madison County Executive
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5149M
Reported as
Beechcraft 76
Reported engine
Lycoming I0-360
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
1,162 total46 in this make and model90 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.

Pilot in command failed to guard gear handle during touch and go operations. Inadvertant retraction of gear on landing roll. Nose gear collapsed resulting in strike damage to propellers, engines and airframe.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO GUARD GEAR HANDLE DURING TOUCH AND GO OPERATIONS. INADVERTANT RETRACTION OF GEAR ON LANDING ROLL. NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED RESULTING IN STRIKE DAMAGE TO PROPELLERS, ENGINES AND AIRFRAME.