- Date
- July 9, 1986, 05:20 local (10:20 UTC)
- Place
- Indianapolis, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9069QBeech BE-58
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860709031559A
- Case key
- 13485
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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.
Analysis
The aircraft landed gear up at Indianapolis international airport. Pilot and witness report that gear was down. However, FAA inspectors and mechanics who inspected the aircraft state that the left main and nose gear were found in the wheels wells and the right main was partially down. They also stated that the lack of damage to gear doors indicated the landing gear were not extended at initial impact.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9069Q
- Reported as
- Beech BE-58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH96
- Airframe hours
- 7,206
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-C, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Pdq Air Service
- Registered owner
- Kors Engineering Co.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- CMH · Columbus, OH
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- IND · Indianapolis Int'L, runway 22R, 10,005 × 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
- 27
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,405 total · 930 in this make and model · 4,260 as pilot in command · 290 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 250° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IND
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.