- Date
- January 13, 1983, 14:14 local (19:14 UTC)
- Place
- Greenville, SC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7737YPiper PA-30
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830113001489A
- Case key
- 5999
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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.
Complete gear collapsed
Gear retraction - inadvertentCause
Analysis
The aircraft landing gear collapsed during landing rollout. The pilot stated that he raised the gear instead of the flaps during the landing roll.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7737Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30-827
- Airframe hours
- 3,932
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-320-B1A, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Allen, John H.
- Registered owner
- Gooding, Stephen C.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 3, 1982 · 37 hours before
- Departed
- GSP · Greer, SC
- Airport
- GMU · Greenville, runway 36, 5,393 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 48
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,396 total · 53 in this make and model · 1,357 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.