- Date
- March 24, 1991, 12:12 local (19:12 UTC)
- Place
- Greeley, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5463DBeech H35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910324046769A
- Case key
- 18077
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadvertent activation of the landing gear switch causing the landing gear to collapse while the aircraft was still on the landing roll.
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 a normal full stop landing, the pilot inadvertently activated the landing gear switch while the aircraft was still on the landing roll. The gear collapsed causing substantial damage to the landing gear system. No malfunction in the landing gear system was found.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5463D
- Reported as
- Beech H35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-4959
- Engine
- Continental O-470, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Wallace L. Newbold
- Registered owner
- Wallace L. Newbold
- Airport
- GXY · Greeley-Weld County, runway 17, 3,600 × 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
- 67
- 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
- 5,900 total · 3,900 in this make and model · 5,700 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.