- Date
- December 3, 1991, 15:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Iowa, IA
- Injuries
- 8 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N14TPSwearingen SA-226T
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 23, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911203054879A
- Case key
- 15354
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear which resulted in the propeller blades contacting the runway during the landing. A factor related to the accident was the pilot's failure to follow a checklist during the approach.
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
During the second landing attempt, the pilot failed to lower the landing gear. The pilot executed a go-around after the propellers contacted the runway. The airplane then returned for an uneventful gear down landing. Post accident inspection revealed that about one third of each blade on the right propeller had separated. Pieces of the separated blade(s) punctured a hole in the pressurized fuselage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N14TP
- Reported as
- Swearingen SA-226T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- T-220
- Engine
- Garrett TPE3313U303G, 840 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Iowa Flying Services, Inc
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- STL · St Louis, MO
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- IOW · Iowa City, runway 3, 3,900 × 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
- 34
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 4,145 total · 87 in this make and model · 3,941 as pilot in command · 89 in the last 90 days · 35 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 25 knots, gusting 30
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 10 °F, dew point 9 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CID, 15 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.