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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-34-200T · Gold Beach, OR · October 30, 2020

Date
October 30, 2020 · 17:47 local
Place
Gold Beach, OR
Airport
Gold Beach Municipal
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N440DM
Reported as
Piper PA-34-200T
Reported engine
Continental TSIO-360 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
298 total36 in this make and model5 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 landed the aircraft with the gear up. Pilot states that he was sure that he put down the gear but cannot remember seeing the gear down lights. A functional check of the landing gear operation did not show any issues.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED THE AIRCRAFT WITH THE GEAR UP. PILOT STATES THAT HE WAS SURE THAT HE PUT DOWN THE GEAR BUT CANNOT REMEMBER SEEING THE GEAR DOWN LIGHTS. A FUNCTIONAL CHECK OF THE LANDING GEAR OPERATION DID NOT SHOW ANY ISSUES.

Other reports on N440DM · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.