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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Raytheon A36 · Gladwin, MI · June 11, 2012

Date
June 11, 2012 · 05:45 local
Place
Gladwin, MI
Airport
Gladwin Zettel Memorial
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N1128T
Reported as
Raytheon A36
Reported engine
Continental IO-550 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
672 total515 in this make and model9 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 noticed that his electrical instrumnets were begining to fail while he was in cruise flight. He then experieced total electrical failure and the autopilot kicked off. The pilot paniced and landed at gladwinn airport gear up. He initially made an attempt to manually lower the gear but he was unable to fly the aircraft and run the emergency checklist at the same time.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT NOTICED THAT HIS ELECTRICAL INSTRUMNETS WERE BEGINING TO FAIL WHILE HE WAS IN CRUISE FLIGHT. HE THEN EXPERIECED TOTAL ELECTRICAL FAILURE AND THE AUTOPILOT KICKED OFF. THE PILOT PANICED AND LANDED AT GLADWINN AIRPORT GEAR UP. HE INITIALLY MADE AN ATTEMPT TO MANUALLY LOWER THE GEAR BUT HE WAS UNABLE TO FLY THE AIRCRAFT AND RUN THE EMERGENCY CHECKLIST AT THE SAME TIME.