20200513005599I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-34-220T · Miami, FL · May 13, 2020

Date
May 13, 2020 · 12:00 local
Place
Miami, FL
Phase of flight
Landing: Approach
Operating rules
Pilot school (Part 141)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N134DS
Reported as
Piper PA-34-220T
Reported engine
Continental TSIO-360 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Private pilot, student
Pilot’s flight hours
195 total4 in this make and model

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.

Student pilot was performing touch and go's. during approach to runway L9, student pilot retracted landing gear by mistake causing aircraft to nosedive into runway.

As the FAA filed it

STUDENT PILOT WAS PERFORMING TOUCH AND GO'S. DURING APPROACH TO RUNWAY L9, STUDENT PILOT RETRACTED LANDING GEAR BY MISTAKE CAUSING AIRCRAFT TO NOSEDIVE INTO RUNWAY.