- Date
- July 22, 1984, 12:50 local (16:50 UTC)
- Place
- Harrison, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3297VBeech B-35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840722033879A
- Case key
- 12703
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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.
Complete gear collapsed
Wheels up landing - inadvertentCause
InattentiveFactor
Checklist - not usedCause
Lack of total experience in type of aircraftFactor
Habit interferenceFactor
Analysis
The plt inadvertently landed the acft with the landing gear retracted. He said he forgot to lower the gear. Most of his 200+ hours of flight time had been in fixed gear acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3297V
- Reported as
- Beech B-35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-749
- Engine
- Continental E-185-1, 185 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jack F. Smith
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 24, 1983 · 11 hours before
- Departed
- 5D3 · Owosso, MI
- Destination
- 48D · Harrison, MI
- Airport
- 5D3 · Owosso Community, runway 10, 3,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 51
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 238 total · 6 in this make and model · 216 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft overcast
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.