- Date
- February 6, 1992, 16:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Monte Vista, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1509Piper PA-30
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 18194
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Probable cause
Operation of the aircraft with known deficiencies in equipment by the pilot in command, and jammed landing gear extension mechanisms due to corrosion.
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 was reportedly conducting the flight to bring the aircraft from its home base to another facility for annual inspection. When he lowered the landing gear for his arrival, the gear failed to extend. After exhausting all possible alternate methods of gear extension, the aircraft was landed with the landing gear in the up position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1509
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30-798
- Airframe hours
- 5,771
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-320-B1A, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Fred Fair
- Registered owner
- Rafael E. Novo
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 2, 1991 · 330 hours before
- Departed
- Taos, NM
- Airport
- MV1 · Monte Vista, runway 2, 6,000 × 60 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 54
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 10,000 total · 100 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 12 °F, dew point -0 °F