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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Beech 95-C55 · Winter Haven, FL · July 17, 2013

Date
July 17, 2013 · 13:00 local
Place
Winter Haven, FL
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N3SU
Reported as
Beech 95-C55
Reported engine
Continental IO-520 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Airline transport, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
6,600 total500 in this make and model30 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 landing aircraft admitted to me that he forgot to extend the landing gears prior to landing and did a gear-up landing.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDING AIRCRAFT ADMITTED TO ME THAT HE FORGOT TO EXTEND THE LANDING GEARS PRIOR TO LANDING AND DID A GEAR-UP LANDING.