Saturday, November 17, 2012

Beech P35, N8589M: Aircraft landed gear up - Rome, Georgia

IDENTIFICATION
  Regis#: 8589M        Make/Model: BE35      Description: 35 Bonanza
  Date: 11/16/2012     Time: 2000

  Event Type: Incident   Highest Injury: None     Mid Air: N    Missing: N
  Damage: Unknown

LOCATION
  City: ROME   State: GA   Country: US

DESCRIPTION
  AIRCRAFT LANDED GEAR UP, ROME, GA

INJURY DATA      Total Fatal:   0
                 # Crew:   1     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:    
                 # Pass:   0     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:    
                 # Grnd:         Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:    


OTHER DATA
  Activity: Unknown      Phase: Landing      Operation: OTHER


  FAA FSDO: COLLEGE PARK, GA  (SO11)              Entry date: 11/19/2012 

http://registry.faa.gov/N8589M 
 
  Workers attempt to move a plane registered to Charles Green after it landed at Richard B. Russel Airport without landing gear on November 16, 2012. Airport manager Mike Matthews said an investigation by the Russel Airport and the Federal Aviation Administration will be conducted to determine why the landing gear failed. 


A local pilot’s landing gear failed as he was touching down at Richard B. Russell Airport on Friday afternoon, and while the plane was damaged, the pilot wasn’t hurt, airport officials said. 

 Airport Manager Mike Mathews declined to name the pilot but said he was doing some “touch and gos” — a maneuver where a pilot lands the plane and takes off again without stopping — and on the final landing the landing gear failed. The propeller was damaged, he said. 

 “I don’t know if it’s mechanical or if he forgot to put (the gear) down,” Mathews said.

 “He walked away from it.”

 The plane is registered to Charles Green of Armu­chee, but it is not known if he was the one flying the plane. 

 Matthews did say the pilot had a hangar at the airport for about 30 years.

 A report was filed with the Federal Aviation Administration, Matthews said.

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