- Date
- February 5, 1987, 19:15 local (Feb 6, 1987, 00:15 UTC)
- Place
- Florence, SC
- Injuries
- 7 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1013GSwearingen SA-226TC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870205002429A
- Case key
- 7377
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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
During the final leg of a domestic scheduled commuter airline flight the aircraft landed with the landing gear in the retracted position. The captain could not recall placing the gear selector handle in the down position and the co-pilot could not remember calling for 'gear down' during the 'before landing checklist'. The co-pilot was flying the leg and the captain was performing the co-pilot functions. As the propellers came in contact with the runway approx. 6 inches of a right propeller blade separated and penetrated the fuselage at row 2, seat 'b'. There were no passengers seated in the area at that time. No mechanical discrepancies were reported by the crew prior to the accident and a landing gear system check after the accident did not reveal any mechanical difficiencies.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1013G
- Reported as
- Swearingen SA-226TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC-409
- Airframe hours
- 9,154
- Engine
- Garrett TPE-331-10, 840 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Atlantis Leasing, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · January 14, 1987
- Departed
- CRE · Myrtle Beach, SC
- Destination
- FLO · Florence, SC
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- FLO · Florence, runway 36, 6,001 × 150 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 53
- 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
- 9,701 total · 1,258 in this make and model · 6,791 as pilot in command · 121 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 60° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FLO
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 N1013G · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.