# Incident 20070320007779I: Piper PA44180, Stockton, CA, March 20, 2007

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 20, 2007, 10:00 local time
- Place: Stockton, CA
- Airport: Stockton Metropolitan
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 37.8933° N, 121.2381° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at Stockton Metropolitan Airport (SCK), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.8933&lon=-121.2381&mi=10
- Aircraft: N98749, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N98749) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-44-180 (registry code 7104402, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-44-180) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming O-360 series (registry code 41575, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-o-360-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA44180
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 3,700 total, 300 in this make and model, 200 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20070320007779I

## Narrative

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

(-23) ON A TRAINING FLIGHT, WHILE ON AN ATC VECTOR FOR A PRACTICE ILS APPROACH, THE INSTRUCTOR REDUCED POWER TO SIMULATE SINGLE ENGINE OPERATION. WITH THE LANDING GEAR UP, THE WARNING HORN ACTIVATED AND CONTINUED TO BEEP. SINCE IT WAS STILL TOO EARLY IN THE APPROACH TO LOWER THE LANDING GEAR, THE INSTRUCTOR ELECTED TO DISABLE THE HORN BY PULLING THE CIRCUIT BREAKER. DISABLING THE CIRCUIT BREAKER ALSO DISABLES THE GREEN PANEL GEAR LIGHTS AND THE HYDRAULIC PUMP. WHEN ON FINAL APPROACH AND INTERCEPTING THE GLIDESLOPE, THE PILOT SELECTED THE LANDING GEAR TO THE DOWN POSITION. THE PILOT DID NOT SEE THAT THE LIGHTS WERE NOT ILLUMINATED NOR DID HE NOTICE THAT THERE WAS NO CHANGE IN THE NOISE AROUND THE AIRCRAFT. THE AIRCRAFT CONTINUED THE APPROACH AND LANDED WITH THE GEAR STILL RETRACTED.

## Other reports on N98749 (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 20130513007109I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20130513007109I), May 13, 2013: Piper PA-44-180 (N98749), Livermoore, CA, Minor damage. Mechanic [privacy data omitted] rigged the nose landing gear uplock switch on aircraft N98749 on 05/13/2013. After the switch was rigged, on 05/13/2013 N98749…

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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