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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-24 · St. Petersburg, FL · May 23, 2012

Date
May 23, 2012 · 17:27 local
Place
St. Petersburg, FL
Airport
St Petersburg-Clearwater International
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6575P
Reported as
Piper PA-24
Reported engine
Lycoming O-360-A1A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
599 total323 in this make and model24 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 was cleared for straight in approach from kspg to kpie. He got distrsacted searching for an aircraft that he was told to follow and forgot to lower the landing gear because he was out of his normal pattern sequence.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS CLEARED FOR STRAIGHT IN APPROACH FROM KSPG TO KPIE. HE GOT DISTRSACTED SEARCHING FOR AN AIRCRAFT THAT HE WAS TOLD TO FOLLOW AND FORGOT TO LOWER THE LANDING GEAR BECAUSE HE WAS OUT OF HIS NORMAL PATTERN SEQUENCE.

Other reports on N6575P · 2

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