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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-23-160 · Minden, NV · January 21, 2025

Date
January 21, 2025 · 17:00 local
Place
Minden, NV
Airport
Minden-Tahoe
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3307P
Reported as
Piper PA-23-160
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-320 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Airline transport, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
16,000 total400 in this make and model20 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 aircraft landed with the landing gear in the up-position at the Minden-Tahoe Airport. Per the pilot's written statement, he was not able to see the 3 landing indicator lights very well because they dimmed. The pilot indicated in the written statement that he heard the gear warning horn but that he thought it was the stall warning horn.

As the FAA filed it

THE AIRCRAFT LANDED WITH THE LANDING GEAR IN THE UP-POSITION AT THE MINDEN-TAHOE AIRPORT. PER THE PILOT'S WRITTEN STATEMENT, HE WAS NOT ABLE TO SEE THE 3 LANDING INDICATOR LIGHTS VERY WELL BECAUSE THEY DIMMED. THE PILOT INDICATED IN THE WRITTEN STATEMENT THAT HE HEARD THE GEAR WARNING HORN BUT THAT HE THOUGHT IT WAS THE STALL WARNING HORN.