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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 58P · New Braunfels, TX · May 11, 2015

Date
May 11, 2015 · 15:50 local
Place
New Braunfels, TX
Airport
New Braunfels Regional
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N397AW
Reported as
Beech 58P
Reported engine
Continental TSIO-520 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
650 total

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 took off from airfield with keys to a truck he borrowed earlier in the same day, he circle the airfield landed and pulled the gear switch up while pulling the flaps up.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT TOOK OFF FROM AIRFIELD WITH KEYS TO A TRUCK HE BORROWED EARLIER IN THE SAME DAY, HE CIRCLE THE AIRFIELD LANDED AND PULLED THE GEAR SWITCH UP WHILE PULLING THE FLAPS UP.