# Incident 20200214001079I: Piper PA-44-180, Mckinney, TX, February 14, 2020

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 14, 2020, 11:15 local time
- Place: Mckinney, TX
- Airport: Mckinney National
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 33.1779° N, 96.5905° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at McKinney National Airport (TKI), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.1779&lon=-96.5905&mi=10
- Aircraft: N805AT, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N805AT) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-44-180 (registry code 7104402, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-44-180) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming O-360-A1H6 (registry code 42399, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-o-360-a1h6) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA-44-180
- Reported engine: LYCOMING O-360-A1H6
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 303 total, 7 in this make and model, 25 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20200214001079I

## Narrative

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

AT APPROXIMATELY 11:15 CST ON FEBRUARY 14, 2020, N805AT, CAME TO REST ON RUNWAY 18 AT THE MCKINNEY NATIONAL AIRPORT (KTKI) WITH THE LANDING GEAR IN THE RETRACTED POSITION.  VISUAL METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS WERE PREVAILING, AND THE PREVIOUS METAR REPORTED AT 16:53Z WAS 10006KT 10SM CLR 03/04 A3050.  THE INCIDENT FLIGHT WAS BEING OPERATED UNDER 14 CFR PART 91 FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONDUCTING A PART 61 AIRMAN PROFICIENCY TEST TO ADD A MULTI-ENGINE RATING TO THE APPLICANTS COMMERCIAL PILOT CERTIFICATE.  PILOT APPLICANT ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^, FAA CERTIFICATE NUMBER ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ , WAS OCCUPYING THE LEFT SEAT.  DESIGNATED PILOT EXAMINER, ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^, FAA CERTIFICATE NUMBER ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^, WAS OCCUPYING THE RIGHT SEAT.

AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT, THE APPLICANT?S PERFORMANCE DURING THE PROFICIENCY TEST HAD BEEN SATISFACTORY, AND THIS NORMAL LANDING WAS THE FINAL TASK TO BE COMPLETED.  PRIOR TO THE INCIDENT THE APPLICANT HAD PERFORMED AN ABORTED LANDING TO RUNWAY 18 AND HAD BEEN ISSUED AN EXTENDED RIGHT-HAND DOWNWIND LEG BY THE TKI AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWER (ATCT) TO ACCOMMODATE OTHER TRAFFIC.  BOTH PILOTS STATED THAT THE NORMAL LANDING CHECKLIST IS NORMALLY BEGAN ABEAM THE LANDING THRESHOLD, AND EXTENDING THE LANDING GEAR NORMALLY OCCURS AT THIS TIME.  HOWEVER, BOTH PILOTS AGREED TO SUSPEND THE LANDING CHECKLIST AND DELAY THE GEAR EXTENSION UNTIL THEY WERE ESTABLISHED IN A MORE APPROPRIATE POSITION IN THE PATTERN.  EXECUTION OF THE LANDING CHECKLIST WAS NEVER RESUMED.

FAA INSPECTORS CONDUCTED POST-INCIDENT INTERVIEWS WITH BOTH PILOTS. EACH REVEALED THAT THEY COULD NOT RECALL HEARING A LANDING GEAR WARNING HORN.  FURTHERMORE, NEITHER COULD RECALL HEARING THE WARNING HORN SOUND WHEN PERFORMING OTHER IN-FLIGHT MANEUVERS EARLIER DURING THE FLIGHT TEST WHICH WOULD NORMALLY CAUSE IT TO SOUND.  A POST INCIDENT MECHANICAL INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT THE GEAR WARNING LIGHTS INSTALLED IN THE AIRCRAFT OPERATED NORMALLY, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH MANUFACTURERS DESIGN, HOWEVER, THE ASSOCIATED WARNING HORN DID NOT ACTIVATE PROPERLY.

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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