- Date
- January 16, 1989, 09:10 local (15:10 UTC)
- Place
- Montgomery, AL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N623AWBeech A90
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 28, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890116001249A
- Case key
- 7980
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Probable cause
The instructor pilot (CFI) inadvertently actuated the landing gear handle to the up position.
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 third touch and go landing of the training flight, the instructor momentarily placed the landing gear handle to the up position while the airplane was on the runway. The left main gear retracted followed by the right. The airplane departed the runway to the left side and came to a stop in the grass. The procedures in effect at the time were for the instructor to set the flaps for takeoff after the student had touched down.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N623AW
- Reported as
- Beech A90
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- LJ 282
- Airframe hours
- 5,719
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-20, 500 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Dothan Houston Arpt.Authority
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · December 27, 1988 · 24 hours before
- Departed
- DHN · Dothan, AL
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- MGM · Dannelly Field, runway 27, 9,001 × 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
- 26
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 4,208 total · 656 in this make and model · 3,534 as pilot in command · 88 in the last 90 days · 39 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,300 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MGM
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.