- Date
- May 30, 2015, 14:28 local (14:28 UTC)
- Place
- Grenchen, Switzerland
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- HB-PLCPiper PA-28RT-201T
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Lead agency
- Other
- Parties
- Swiss TSB
- Case key
- 91293
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Landing gear collapseAll aircraft: 1,787 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- HB-PLC
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28RT-201T
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator
- Maximair AG
- Registered owner
- Maximair AG
- Airworthiness certificate
- Unknown
- Departed
- LSZG · Grenchen
- Destination
- LSZG · Grenchen
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- LSZG · Grenchen Airport
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.01 inHg
- Observed at
- LSZG