- Date
- March 19, 1989, 11:04 local (16:04 UTC)
- Place
- Chamblee, GA
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N72253Beech A36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 2, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890319004059A
- Case key
- 8001
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Probable cause
The inattention of the pilot which resulted in the inadvertent retraction of the landing gear during the landing roll.
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 plt and an ATC twr controller stated the landing gear was down during final apch. The controller said the acft touched down near the aprch threshold, rolled aprx 1,700 ft and the right main gear collapsed. Post accident inspection revealed the landing gear extended without difficulty using the acft electrical system but would not retract because of impact damage. Lateral scrape marks were also found on the left main tire. The landing gear handle in this acft is located in the conventional position, to the left of the throttle.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N72253
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E2227
- Airframe hours
- 1,243
- Engine
- Continental IO-550-B, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Quality Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- CRG · Jacksonville, FL
- Destination
- PDK · Chamblee, GA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- PDK · Dekalb-Peach-Tree, runway 2R, 6,000 × 100 ft, concrete
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
- 32
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,100 total · 700 in this make and model · 1,800 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- PDK, 1 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.