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Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Cessna 172RG · Opalocka, FL · June 4, 2013

Date
June 4, 2013 · 13:11 local
Place
Opalocka, FL
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N510FA
Reported as
Cessna 172RG
Reported engine
Lycoming O&VO-360 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Airline transport, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
4,600 total135 in this make and model100 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 and CFI were landing on runway 9R and both pilots forgot to confirm that the landing gear was down and locked.

Both pilots confirmed that they were so concentrated on the maneuver and forgot to lower the landing gear.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT AND CFI WERE LANDING ON RUNWAY 9R AND BOTH PILOTS FORGOT TO CONFIRM THAT THE LANDING GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED.

BOTH PILOTS CONFIRMED THAT THEY WERE SO CONCENTRATED ON THE MANEUVER AND FORGOT TO LOWER THE LANDING GEAR.