- Date
- September 13, 2006, 16:55 local (20:55 UTC)
- Place
- Dayton, OH
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N434TWPiper PA-34-220T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 28, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Cincinnati, OH, FSDO
- FAA report
- 20060913026759A
- Case key
- 64613
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadvertent wheels up landing.
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 airplane sustained substantial damage on impact with terrain during a wheels up landing. The pilot said that he forgot to put the gear down. The airplane was examined after the accident and no gear or gear horn anomalies were detected.
Factual narrative
The airplane sustained substantial damage on impact with terrain during a wheels up landing. According to a police report, the pilot said that he forgot to put the gear down. The airplane was examined after the accident and no gear or gear horn anomalies were detected.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N434TW
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-220T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-8233040
- Engines
- Teledyne Continental TSIO-360-KB, reciprocatingTeledyne Continental TSIO-360-KB, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Gr Aviation Group LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 1, 2006 · 0.5 hours before
- Departed
- MIE · Muncie, IN
- Destination
- DAY · Dayton, OH
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 77
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 1, 2006
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,900 total · 2,000 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.82 inHg
- Observed at
- DAY
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.