- Date
- July 3, 1986, 20:10 local (Jul 4, 1986, 00:10 UTC)
- Place
- Cherry Point, NC
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N1770MCessna 337F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860703030859A
- Case key
- 7144
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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
When the gear selector handle was placed in the up position the gear unsafe warning horn sounded. The plt reported a stall warning horn to ATC and returned to the airport and landed. Finding nothing wrong with the aircraft the plt. Took-off again. Whenthe horn again came on he and one of his passengers took turns holding the test botton in to keep the horn silent. Finally they put a piece of paper under the botton, that stopped the horn. The landing gear would not extend normally with the alternate/emergency systems. A gear up landing was made on grass.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1770M
- Reported as
- Cessna 337F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 33701370
- Airframe hours
- 2,269
- Engine
- Continental IO-360-C, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John W. Bell
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Unknown · July 16, 1985
- Departed
- TVS · Knoxville, TN
- Destination
- MRH · Beaufort, NC
- Airport
- NKT · Ch. Pr Marine Corps Airst
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
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,200 total · 450 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- NKT
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.