- Date
- June 9, 1987, 01:00 local (06:00 UTC)
- Place
- Birmingham, AL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N56657Piper PA-34-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report December 10, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 7333
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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.
Gear not extended
Light condition - night
Gear extension - not performedCause
Wheels up landing - inadvertentCause
Analysis
The pilot reported that during a landing, he forgot to extend the landing gear. He was wearing a 'dave clark' headset with earplugs & did not hear the landing gear warning horn. During a subsequent check of the landing gear, it operated normally.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N56657
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-7450017
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1E6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Bank Air
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · May 27, 1987 · 29 hours before
- Departed
- Atlanta, GA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- BHM · Birmingham, runway 36, 4,856 × 150 ft, asphalt
N56657Registration cancelled Jul 26, 2010 · Piper PA-34-200Airframe modelPiper PA-34-200Engine modelLycoming I0360 series
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
- 43
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,897 total · 157 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg