- Date
- December 10, 1991, 15:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Erie, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9449SBeech V35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911210058419I
- Case key
- 18184
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Probable cause
An inadvertent gear up landing when the pilot in command and designated examiner failed to use proper procedures. A factor was: failure of the landing gear extension/retraction motor.
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 designated examiner was giving the student pilot his private pilot examination flight check. During a soft field landing demonstration by the student, the gear was lowered and the gear handle was verified down by both pilots. However, neither pilot verified the gear via the gear light. The gear warning sounded during final approach, but both pilots misidentified it as a stall warning. The aircraft was landed with the gear up and the gear doors partially opened. The landing gear motor had failed and the circuit breaker was popped.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9449S
- Reported as
- Beech V35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-8069
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert D. Philips
- Departed
- BJC · Broomfield, CO
- Airport
- 48V · Tri-County, runway 15, 5,400 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 35
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 89 total · 75 in this make and model · 89 in the last 90 days · 63 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 35 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 16,000 ft overcast
- 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.