- Date
- October 16, 1984, 11:22 local (19:22 UTC)
- Place
- Selawik, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9540Beech 3NM
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19841016060619A
- Case key
- 4436
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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
Maintaining visual separation with other acft, flying a straight-in apch instead of a conventional pattern, and concern over the landing on a short strip interfered with the plt's habit pattern. The gear was not extended and the gear-up landing resulted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9540
- Reported as
- Beech 3NM
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CA-244
- Airframe hours
- 7,635
- Engine
- P&W R-985-AN-14B, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Ryan Air Service, Inc., doing business as Ryan Air Service, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Wilfred Ryan & Thomas Lehe
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- OTZ · Kotzebue, AK
- Destination
- WLK · Selawik, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- WLK · Selawik, runway 8, 1,900 × 60 ft, gravel
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 30
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,973 total · 77 in this make and model · 1,481 as pilot in command · 346 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 30 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N9540 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.