- Date
- July 9, 2001, 15:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Pahokee, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N747DNPiper PA-46-500TP
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Fort Lauderdale FSDO
- FAA report
- 20010709024789A
- Case key
- 53408
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to follow the checklist while making an approach for landing resulting in a wheels up landing. Contributing to the accident was the certified flight instructor inadequate supervision of the rated pilot receiving instruction.
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
The pilot receiving instruction and the CFI were making an approach for landing. The checklist was not completed which resulted in a wheels up landing.
Factual narrative
On July 9, 2001, at about 1500 eastern daylight time, a Piper PA-46-500TP, N747DN, registered to the New Piper Aircraft Inc., operating as a 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight, experienced a gear up landing at the Palm Beach County Glades Airport, Pahokee, Florida. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The airline transport rated certified flight instructor (CFI) and commercial pilot receiving instruction reported no injuries. The flight originated from Vero Beach, Florida, about 1 hour before the accident.
The CFI stated they were making an approach to runway 35. "The approach checklist was completed to the flaps and landing gear. After that discussion the landing gear was over looked and a no flap, no landing gear approach was made to touch down." The operator stated in the NTSB Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident Report submitted on September 11, 2001, that there was no evidence of a mechanical malfunction ion or failure.
The damage to the airplane was upgraded to substantial damage based on an airframe examination conducted by the New Piper Aircraft Inc, and was inadvertently not reported to the NTSB.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N747DN
- Reported as
- Piper PA-46-500TP
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4697038
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-42A, 500 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- New Piper Aircraft Inc.
- Registered owner
- New Piper Aircraft Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- VRB · Vero Beach, FL
- Destination
- PHK · Pahokee, FL
- Airport
- PHK · Palm Beach County Glades, runway 35, 4,116 × 75 ft, asphalt
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 40
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,400 total
- Role
- Co-pilot
- Age
- 68
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Seat
- Right
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,400 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.97 inHg
- Observed at
- PHK
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.