# Incident 20020502014109I: Beech B60, Okeechobee, FL, May 2, 2002

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 2, 2002, 10:00 local time
- Place: Okeechobee, FL
- Airport: Okeechobee County Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 27.2666° N, 80.8504° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at OKEECHOBEE COUNTY (OBE), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=27.2666&lon=-80.8504&mi=10
- Aircraft: N1820M (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BEECH B60
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 7,500 total, 25 in this make and model, 70 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20020502014109I

## Narrative

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

(-23) ROY BOLLING WAS ASSIGNED BY AIRCRAFT TRAINING MANAGEMENT AS THE INSTRUCTOR FO RTHE "DUKE INITIAL TRAINING COURSE", FOR MR. JEFFERSON VANDER WOLK. ON MAY 2, 2002, THEY WERE SCHEDULED TO DO AIRWORK AND LANDING PRACTICE AT THE OKEECHOBEE AIRPORT (OBE). ON THE FOURTH LANDING AT OBE, DURING A SINGLE ENGINE APPROACH WITH AIRSPEED COVERED, THEY TOUCHED DOWN WITH THE GEAR RETRACTED. THE GEAR HANDLE WAS STATED TO HAVE BEEN DOWN, BUT IT WAS NEVER CONFIRMED TO HAVE THREE GREEN. WHEN THE AIRCRAFT SETTLED ONTO THE RUNWAY HE TOOK CONTROL FROM MR. VANDER WOLK WHILE ADDING FULL POWER. MR. BOLLING CLIMBED THE AIRCRAFT BACK TO ALTITUDE AND MR. VANDER WOLK GOT OUT OF HIS SEAT TO LOWER THE GEAR MANUALLY. IT TOOK THEM ABOUT 5 MINUTES TO EXTEND THE LANDING GEAR, AT THAT TIME MR. BOLLING DECIDED THE AIRCRAFT "WAS UNCONTROLLABLE" AND WOULD FLY IT THE 35 MILES BACK TO VERO BEACH FOR MAINTENANCE. UPON ARRIVAL AT VERO BEACH HE ASKED THE TOWER FOR A FLY-BY TO CONFIRM THE GEAR WAS LOCKED DOWN. ONCE THE GEAR APPEARED TO BE DOWN HE LANDED UNEVENTFULLY.

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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