20190529005409I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-24-250 · West Palm Beach, FL · May 29, 2019

Date
May 29, 2019 · 14:00 local
Place
West Palm Beach, FL
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8044P
Reported as
Piper PA-24-250
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-540 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Airline transport
Pilot’s flight hours
18,173 total71 in this make and model183 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.

The airman was operating N8044P, and intented to only due one traffic pattern with the gear down but, there was too much noise so he put the gear up and failed to lower the gear again since it wasn?t in his original plan to put it down in the first place.

As the FAA filed it

THE AIRMAN WAS OPERATING N8044P, AND INTENTED TO ONLY DUE ONE TRAFFIC PATTERN WITH THE GEAR DOWN BUT, THERE WAS TOO MUCH NOISE SO HE PUT THE GEAR UP AND FAILED TO LOWER THE GEAR AGAIN SINCE IT WASN?T IN HIS ORIGINAL PLAN TO PUT IT DOWN IN THE FIRST PLACE.