# NTSB DEN01LA076: Beech 95-B55B (T42A), N38KS, Watkins, CO, March 27, 2001 - Type: NTSB accident investigation - Classification: Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report - Date: March 27, 2001, 15:40 local (22:40 UTC) - Place: Watkins, CO - Coordinates: 39.750553, -104.599479 (estimated) - Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=39.7506&lon=-104.5995&mi=10 - Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping) - Highest injury: No injuries - Injuries: 3 uninjured - Status: Completed, report July 30, 2001 - Report: Approved by Office Director - Parties: FAA, FSDO - NTSB case key (mKey): 51974 - NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DEN01LA076 - NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/51974/pdf - Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DEN01LA076 ## Probable cause An inadvertent landing gear retracted landing by the CFI during an instructional flight conducting a touch-and-go landing. ## Sequence of events In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf). - Wheels up landing, landing - flare/touchdown - wheels up landing - inadvertent, pilot in command(cfi) (cause) ## Analysis While conducting an instructional flight with two student pilots, the flight instructor failed to lower the landing gear prior to a touch-and-go landing. The aircraft landed with the landing gear retracted and caught fire. All three occupants exited without injury. Examination of the aircraft following the accident revealed that the right throttle landing gear warning lever had rotated 90 degrees and was hung up on the left mixture control lever, thus moving the right throttle also moved the left mixture. It could not be determined whether the warning horn rod position affected the landing gear warning system operation. ## Factual narrative On March 27, 2001, at 1540 mountain standard time, a Beech 95-B55B (T42A), N38KS, was destroyed by post impact fire following an unintentional landing gear retracted landing at Front Range Airport, Watkins, Colorado. The airline transport certificated flight instructor and his two students were not injured. The flight was operating as an instructional flight under Title 14 CFR Part 91 and no flight plan was filed. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed during the flight which departed Centennial Airport, Englewood, Colorado, at approximately 1440. The flight instructor said he forgot to lower the landing gear. Following the accident, the two student pilots were interviewed by an FAA inspector. They related that the only aircraft problem they were aware of was that the mixtures moved when the throttle setting was adjusted. A subsequent examination of the aircraft revealed that the right throttle landing gear warning lever had rotated 90 degrees and was hung up on the left mixture control. When the right throttle was moved, the left mixture moved with it. The left throttle landing gear warning rod was fixed in its proper position. Due to aircraft damage, it is unknown if this condition affected the operation of the landing gear warning system. ## Aircraft - Registration: [N38KS](https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N38KS-2017-05-22), registration cancelled 2017-05-22, S/N TF-11, built 1966 (OpenAirDocs) - Reported make and model: Beech 95-B55B (T42A) - Registry model: [Beech 95-B55B (T42A)](https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-95-b55b-t42a) (registry code 1152701) (OpenAirDocs) - Registry engine: [Continental O-470 series](https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-o-470-series) (registry code 17026, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs) - Category: Airplane - Serial number: TF-11 - Airframe hours: 11000 - Engines: Lycoming IO-470 260 horsepower reciprocating - Damage: Destroyed - Fire: On-Ground - Flight: Instructional, Part 91 - Operator: Enterprise Airline Academy - Registered owner: Jdts Leasing, Inc. - Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal - Departed: APA, ENGLEWOOD, CO - Destination: FTG, WATKINS, CO - Airport: FTG, Front Range, runway 8, 8,000 × 100 ft, asphalt ## Flight crew As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names. - Pilot; age 63; injuries: none; flight instructor, airline transport; airplane ratings: multi-engine land, single-engine land; instrument ratings: airplane; medical: class 2, valid medical--w/ waivers/lim; last flight review May 25, 2000; seat: right; flight hours: 2,200 total, 200 in this make and model, 2,000 as pilot in command, 200 in the last 90 days, 50 in the last 30 days, 6 in the last 24 hours - Student pilot; injuries: none - Student pilot; injuries: none ## Weather - Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day - Wind: 350° at 6 knots, gusting 18 - Visibility: 7 statute miles - Lowest ceiling: 4,800 ft broken - Temperature: 48 °F, dew point 30 °F - Altimeter: 29.89 inHg - Observed at: KDVX, 10 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 (OpenAirDocs). - [Accident 20010327006859A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20010327006859A), Mar 27, 2001: No damage. (-23) Flight instructor vogel was teaching short field landings to Mr. Wiebe in preparation for wiebe's commercial pilot flight test. After a number of… From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. --- OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.