- Date
- March 26, 1987, 18:30 local (Mar 27, 1987, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Wahpeton, ND
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6550UMooney M20C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report May 9, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870326007529A
- Case key
- 17180
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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
A CFI and a dual student were making practice landings. On the sixth landing, the student failed to lower the landing gear. The CFI did not notice that the acft did not have landing gear extended. The acft landed with gear fully retracted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6550U
- Reported as
- Mooney M20C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2333
- Airframe hours
- 3,155
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Gerry Beck
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 1, 1986 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- D63 · Wahpeton, ND
- Airport
- D63 · Wahpeton Harry Stern, runway 15, 4,400 × 75 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
- 32
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 572 total · 32 in this make and model · 439 as pilot in command · 44 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Temperature
- 45 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.