- Date
- June 29, 1990, 09:15 local (15:15 UTC)
- Place
- Broomfield, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6391PPiper PA24-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900629023079A
- Case key
- 17963
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to extend the landing gear for landing. Contributing factors were the pilot diverting his attention from the task at hand and failure to use a checklist.
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
The pilot, with his passenger/son, was in the landing pattern at jefferson county airport, Broomfield, Colorado. He said that he was distracted by another aircraft in the landing pattern and forgot to lower the landing gear. The aircraft landed with the gear up.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6391P
- Reported as
- Piper PA24-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 24-1501
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-A1D5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- David R. Tobler
- Departed
- ZV2 · Longmont, CO
- Airport
- BJC · Jefferson County, runway 29R, 9,000 × 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 695 total · 6 in this make and model · 565 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- BJC
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.