- Date
- April 28, 1987, 23:18 local (Apr 29, 1987, 03:18 UTC)
- Place
- Greenville, SC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3240YBeech 95-B55
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report May 2, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870428012659A
- Case key
- 7421
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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
The aircraft landed with the landing gear in the up position when the pilot inadvertently failed to extend the gear. He had disarmed the landing gear warning system by pulling the system circuit breaker because it was activating at normal power settings. He inadvertently failed to reset the gear warning circuit breaker before landing and received no warning that he was landing with the gear up.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3240Y
- Reported as
- Beech 95-B55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC2322
- Airframe hours
- 1,100
- Engine
- Continental IO470L, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ronald S. Mc Grath
- Registered owner
- Roland Pugh Construction, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- SPA · Spartanburg, SC
- Airport
- GMU · Greenville Downtown, runway 36, 5,393 × 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
- 44
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,090 total · 170 in this make and model · 4,000 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 350° at 14 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GSP, 6 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.