# Incident 20240228002599I: Cessna 340A, Fort Myers, FL, February 28, 2024

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 28, 2024, 12:03 local time
- Place: Fort Myers, FL
- Airport: Page Field
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Rollout
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 26.5866° N, 81.8632° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at PAGE FLD (FMY), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=26.5866&lon=-81.8632&mi=10
- Aircraft: N56ME, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N56ME) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 340A (registry code 2076405, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-340a) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-520 series (registry code 17032, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-520-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 340A
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 3,598 total
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20240228002599I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

PIC DEPARTED FROM HOME AIRPORT OF KMTH.  FLEW TO KMKY TO FUEL UP.   NORMAL, STABLE LANDING AND A SOFT TOUCH DOWN AT KMKY AND THREE GREEN LIGHTS ON ROLLOUT AND SUBSEQUENT TAKEOFF. THE WINDS WERE VIRTUALLY DOWN THE RUNWAY 17 AT KMKY.  PILOT RECEIVED IFR CLEARANCE ON THE GROUND AT KMKY AND TOOK OFF.  PILOT STATED ALL WAS FINE UNTIL HE SELECTED GEAR DOWN FOR LANDING AT KFMY. PIC DIDN’T RECEIVE A RIGHT MAIN GEAR INDICATION THAT IT WAS DOWN AND LOCKED. PILOT RAISED THE GEAR AND AGAIN SELECTED DOWN. NO CHANGE.  PILOT THEN REPORTED THE SITUATION TO THE TOWER. TOWER ASKED A NEARBY AIRPLANE TO SEE IF THE LANDING GEAR WAS FULLY DOWN, A PILOT REPORTED IT WAS. A HELICOPTER TO THE RIGHT CONFIRMED THAT THE THREE WHEELS WERE DOWN AS WELL. AS THE PIC APPROACHED THE FIELD THE TOWER VERIFIED THAT ALL THREE WHEELS WERE DOWN. PILOT WAS THEN CLEARED TO LAND. AS PIC SET THE APPROACH POWER, FLAPS, AND FLEW THE VASI AS 105 KNOTS. THE PILOT STATED THAT HE TOUCHED DOWN GENTLY JUST PAST THE AIMING POINT AND ROLLED OUT AT IDLE POWER. PILOT HELD THE NOSE WHEEL OFF AND HAD FULL LEFT AILERON FOR THE CROSSWIND AND A POTENTIAL RIGHT GEAR ISSUE. THE NOSE WHEEL FINALLY TOUCHED DOWN AND AIRCRAFT ROLLED FOR ANOTHER 100 FEET OR SO, WHEN THE AIRPLANE BEGAN TIPPING TO THE RIGHT AND TURNING RIGHT. PILOT STATED THAT HE HEARD THUMPING AS THE RIGHT PROPELLER BLADES STRUCK THE RUNWAY. HE STATED THAT HE DIDN’T HAVE MUCH STEERING COMMAND AT THAT POINT AND TRIED HIS BEST TO AVOID STRIKING RUNWAY LIGHTS AND SIGNS.  THE PLANE TURNED MORE SHARPLY AS THE RIGHT-WING FLAP PLOWED THE GRASS OFF THE RUNWAY AND THEN CAME TO REST. THE PILOT THEN ANNOUNCED TO HIS ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ WHO WAS IN THE BACK SEAT TO OPEN THE DOOR AND GET OUT.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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