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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech M35 · Essex, MD · February 18, 2013

Date
February 18, 2013 · 17:00 local
Place
Essex, MD
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9799R
Reported as
Beech M35
Reported engine
Continental I0-470 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
1,072 total180 in this make and model8 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 practicing landings and neglected to put the landing gear down. Pilot was wearing a bosse head set and may not have been able to hear the gear warning horn.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS PRACTICING LANDINGS AND NEGLECTED TO PUT THE LANDING GEAR DOWN. PILOT WAS WEARING A BOSSE HEAD SET AND MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HEAR THE GEAR WARNING HORN.