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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Elan/Glaser Dirks DG-300 ELAN · Minden, NV · September 18, 2019

Date
September 18, 2019 · 15:00 local
Place
Minden, NV
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N303AM
Reported as
Elan/Glaser Dirks DG-300 Elan
Reported engine
NONE NONE
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Airline transport, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
17,000 total10 in this make and model250 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 stated he placed the landing gear selector in the down position but on touchdown the gear collapsed with the gear handle in the neutral position resulting in minor damage to the belly of the glider.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT STATED HE PLACED THE LANDING GEAR SELECTOR IN THE DOWN POSITION BUT ON TOUCHDOWN THE GEAR COLLAPSED WITH THE GEAR HANDLE IN THE NEUTRAL POSITION RESULTING IN MINOR DAMAGE TO THE BELLY OF THE GLIDER.