- Date
- March 10, 1988, 09:20 local (15:20 UTC)
- Place
- Dixon, IL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4072DPiper PA-31-350
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 28, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880310048909A
- Case key
- 14054
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Airframe/component/system failure/malfunction
Landing gear,normal retraction/extension assembly - binding(mechanical)Cause
Gear extension - not possible
In flight collision with terrain/water
Wheels up landing
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4072D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-31-350
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31-8152017
- Airframe hours
- 2,028
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540, 350 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Blackhawk Air Service
- Registered owner
- Blackhawk Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · February 24, 1988 · 23 hours before
- Departed
- FEP · Freeport, IL
- Destination
- RFD · Rockford, IL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- C73 · Dixon Muni, runway 8, 3,900 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 53
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 22,180 total · 1,208 in this make and model · 21,725 as pilot in command · 180 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.