- Date
- November 4, 1981
- Place
- Longview, TX · LONGVIEW, TX
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N73143Convair 580
- Status
- Completed · report November 25, 1981
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 123408
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2621 81/11/4 LONGVIEW,TX CONVAIR 580 CR- 0 0 3 INSTRUCTIONAL ATP,FLIGHT INSTR., AGE TIME - 1111 N73143 PX- 0 0 0 TRAINING 55, 14700 TOTAL HOURS, 60 DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - GREGG COUNTY DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION LONGVIEW,TX LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION GEAR RETRACTED LANDING: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED GEAR FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - TOUCH AND GO LANDING REMARKS- INSTR PLT INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED GEAR WHILE CONFIGURING ACFT FOR TKOF.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N73143
- Reported as
- Convair 580
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Gregg County
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.
Other investigations on N73143 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.