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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32R-300 · Goodnews, AK · June 29, 2020

Date
June 29, 2020 · 16:00 local
Place
Goodnews, AK
Airport
Goodnews Airport
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Operator
T72A
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N181DW
Reported as
Piper PA-32R-300
Reported engine
Lycoming IO-540-K1A5D
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Airline transport
Pilot’s flight hours
35,000 total730 in this make and model194 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 flight departed platinum, AK for the short, ten minute trip to Goodnews, AK. The pilot failed to lower the landing gear prior to landing. The aircraft landed gear up and came to rest on runway 02 sustaining minor damage that would be expected of a gear up landing.

As the FAA filed it

THE FLIGHT DEPARTED PLATINUM, AK FOR THE SHORT, TEN MINUTE TRIP TO GOODNEWS, AK. THE PILOT FAILED TO LOWER THE LANDING GEAR PRIOR TO LANDING. THE AIRCRAFT LANDED GEAR UP AND CAME TO REST ON RUNWAY 02 SUSTAINING MINOR DAMAGE THAT WOULD BE EXPECTED OF A GEAR UP LANDING.