- Date
- September 23, 1992, 14:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Joliet, IL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N557TBeech B55
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920923038519A
- Case key
- 15315
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadvertent wheels up landing.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot reported he placed the landing gear selector in the down position while on approach to land and received a green light. He did not recall hearing a gear warning horn or a change in airflow, or feeling a pitch change, after placing the selector down. The airplane subsequently landed wheels up and caught fire after coming to a stop on the asphalt runway. Post accident inspection of the landing gear and its systems discovered no mechanical anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N557T
- Reported as
- Beech B55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 620
- Airframe hours
- 4,285
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-L, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- J. F. Aviation
- Registered owner
- Sittig, Daryl
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 10, 1992 · 15 hours before
- Airport
- JOT · Joliet Park District, runway 12, 2,970 × 100 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
- 58
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,000 total · 50 in this make and model · 300 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ARR, 22 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.