# Accident 20250110000109A: Piper PA-44-180, Pompano Beach, FL, January 10, 2025

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 10, 2025, 11:11 local time
- Place: Pompano Beach, FL
- Airport: Pompano Beach Air Park
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Approach
- Operating rules: Pilot school (Part 141)
- Operator: JM8S
- Location: 26.2501° N, 80.1117° W: From the FAA
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=26.2501&lon=-80.1117&mi=10
- Aircraft: N555HF, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N555HF) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-44-180 (registry code 7104402, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-44-180) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming O&VO-360 series (registry code 41514, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-o-vo-360-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA-44-180
- Reported engine: LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport
- Pilot flight hours: 1,150 total
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB ERA25LA096](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA25LA096) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20250110000109A

## Narrative

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

AFTER COMPLETING MEI CHECK RIDE AND SEVERAL TOUCH-AND-GO'S, AIRCRAFT HEADED BACK TO PMP FOR NORMAL LANDING. AIRCRAFT TURNED BASE FOR FINAL APPROACH AND PILOT LOWERED LANDING GEAR. GEAR WARNING HORN SOUNDED AND RIGHT MAIN LANDING GEAR ANNUNCIATOR FAILED TO ILLUMINATE. PILOT ABORTED LANDING AND REGAINED ALTITUDE TO TROUBLESHOOT LANDING GEAR MALFUNCTION. AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO LOWER LANDING GEAR, INCLUDING EMERGENCY EXTENSION, PILOT FLEW BY PMP TOWER TO VISUALLY CONFIRM LANDING GEAR WAS NOT EXTENDING. PILOT DECLARED EMERGENCY AND INITIATED EMERGENCY PROCEDURES FOR GEAR UP LANDING. PILOT SHUT DOWN BOTH ENGINES, FEATHERED BOTH PROPS, LOWERED FLAPS AND LANDED THE AIRCRAFT ON RUNWAY 15. AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST ON RUNWAY 15 AND BOTH PILOTS WERE ABLE TO EXIT THE AIRCRAFT WITH NO INJURIES.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB ERA25LA096](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA25LA096), Jan 10, 2025: Piper PA-44-180 (N555HF), Pompano Beach, FL, substantial damage. Probable cause: The separation of the securing hardware for the right main landing gear upper and lower torque links for undetermined reasons, which prevented extension of the right main landing gear.

## Other reports on N555HF (2)

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

- [Incident 20250821013089I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20250821013089I), Aug 21, 2025: Piper PA-44-180 (N555HF), Terrel, TX, Minor damage. PIC (CFI) was performing training in the pattern with a student. During the downwind leg of flight pilots were notified there was traffic in the vicinity and…
- [Incident 20160521006879I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20160521006879I), May 21, 2016: Piper PA-44-180 (N555HF), Opelika, AL, Minor damage. On may 21, 2016 at apprx. 1745 local time instructor [privacy data omitted] was flight instructing a student in N555HF, a PA-44, Piper seminole, at Auburn…

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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