# Incident 20140804015469I: Piper PA-24-250, Austin, TX, August 4, 2014

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 4, 2014, 08:55 local time
- Place: Austin, TX
- Airport: Bergstrom
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 30.2672° N, 97.7431° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Austin, TX, within about 10 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=30.2672&lon=-97.7431&mi=10
- Aircraft: N6658P, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N6658P) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-24-250 (registry code 7102404, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-24-250) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-540 series (registry code 41532, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA-24-250
- Reported engine: LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport
- Pilot flight hours: 11,000 total, 33 in this make and model, 90 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20140804015469I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

PILOT TOOK OFF FROM DEPARTING AIRPORT SHORTLY BEFORE DAWN. NAVIGATION LIGHTS WERE ON. UPON APPROACH TO BERGSTROM AIRPORT AUSTIN, TEXAS (NOW DAYLIGHT) LANDING GEAR INDICATION WAS NOT VISABLE TO SHOW LANDING GEAR DOWN AND LOCKED. (LANDING GEAR LIGHT WAS NOT ILLUMINATED). PILOT MADE NUMEROUS ATTEMPS TO EXTEND GEAR NORMAL AND EMERGENCY EXTEND. UPON TOUCHDOWN LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED.

INSPECTION SHOWED NO DEFECT WITH GEAR SYSTEM. LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED DUE TO PILOT NOT PERFORMING EMERGENCY EXTENSION AS PRESCRIBED BY MANUFACTURES INSTRUCTIONS. THIS  AIRCRAFT MODEL WILL NOT GIVE HIGH ILLUMINATION TO THE GEAR DOWN LIGHT IF THE NAVIGATION LIGHTS ARE LEFT ON DURING DAYLIGHT OPERATION, THEREFORE THE PILOT BELIEVED HE HAD A GEAR SYSTEM MALFUNCTION.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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