- Date
- March 20, 2004, 08:45 local (13:45 UTC)
- Place
- Jacksonville, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N412VBeech V35B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 2004
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- Orlando FSDO-15
- FAA report
- 20040320016719A
- Case key
- 58940
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadvertent retraction of the landing gear during the taxi from landing, which resulted in structural damage to the airplane.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
During taxi from landing, the commercial pilot inadvertently retracted the landing gear while attempting to retract the flaps. The landing gear collapsed, damaging the landing gear support structure and associated structural attachments.
Factual narrative
On March 20, 2004, about 0845 eastern standard time, a Beech V35B airplane, N412V, sustained substantial damage when the pilot inadvertently retracted the landing gear during taxi from landing at the Herlong Airport, Jacksonville, Florida. The airplane was being operated by the pilot as a visual flight rules (VFR) personal cross country flight under Title 14, CFR Part 91, at the time of the accident. The solo commercial pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed. The flight departed the St. Marys Airport, St. Marys, Georgia, about 0730.
During a telephone conversation with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator-in-charge (IIC), on March 21, the pilot said during taxi after landing he went to retract the flaps, and inadvertently retracted the landing gear. He said there were no known mechanical anomalies with the airplane prior to the accident.
During a telephone conversation with the NTSB IIC on March 24, the FAA aviation safety inspector who examined the airplane, said the box beam that supports the landing gear transmission was damaged, and would have to be replaced. He said the landing gear, gear doors, and the propeller were also damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N412V
- Reported as
- Beech V35B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D9292
- Airframe hours
- 3,721
- Engine
- Continental IO-550-B4F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- James H. Starline
- Registered owner
- Dinkins and Starline Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 29, 2004 · 17 hours before
- Departed
- 4J6 · St. Marys, GA
- Destination
- HEG · Jacksonville, FL
- Airport
- HEG · Herlong, runway 25, 4,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 59
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Last flight review
- March 16, 2002
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,163 total · 492 in this make and model · 1,112 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.35 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.