# Incident 20021031033359I: Beech 95C55, Bridgeport, CT, October 31, 2002

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: October 31, 2002, 09:30 local time
- Place: Bridgeport, CT
- Airport: Igor I Sikorsky Memorial
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Touch And Go Landing
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 41.1635° N, 73.1262° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at Igor I Sikorsky Memorial Airport (BDR), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.1635&lon=-73.1262&mi=10
- Aircraft: N211Y, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N211Y) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Beech 95-C55 (registry code 1152708, https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-95-c55) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-520 series (registry code 17032, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-520-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BEECH 95C55
- Reported engine: CONT IO520*
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 2,539 total, 400 in this make and model, 75 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20021031033359I

## Narrative

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

(-23) THIS AIRCRAFT WAS PERFORMING TOUCH AND GO ON RUNWAY 06. AFTER COMPLETING THE TOUCH DOWN IN A NORMAL LANDING WITH FLAPS EXTENDED, MR. JARED GOWLIS THE CERTIFICATED FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR INSTRUCTED MR. SANCHEZ HIS STUDENT TO RAISE THE FLAPS. MR. SANCHEZ RAISED THE LANDING GEAR BY ACCIDENT, MR. GOWLIS PLACED THE GEAR HANDLE IN THE DOWN POSITION, BUT IT WAS TOO LATE AND THE GEAR COLLAPSED. THE FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR STATED THAT THE AIRCRAFT SPEED AT THE TIME OF THE INADVERTENT GEAR RETRACTION WAS APPROXIMATELY 75 M.P.H AS THE AIRCRAFT CAME TO A STOP THE FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR CALLED FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES, AND SHUT OFF THE FUEL, MAGNETOS, AIRCRAFT MASTER SWITCH, AND EVACUATED THE AIRCRAFT TO A SAFE DISTANCE. NOTE: MR. SANCHEZ WAS RECEIVING TRAINING IN PREPARATION FOR HIS INITIAL MULTIENGINE FLIGHT TEST.

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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