- Date
- April 7, 1983, 20:15 local (Apr 8, 1983, 02:15 UTC)
- Place
- Carlisle, AR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N888QCessna 320D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 20857
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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
A private pilot was receiving multi-engine training from a CFI when the accident occurred. The CFI pulled the right throttle back for engine out training and the acft proceeded around the traffic pattern. The pilot thinks he moved the gear selector from up to neutral instead of down and did not check the landing gear position indicator lights. As the landing flair was started, and the propellers struck the runway, the CFI put the gear handle down. The gear warning horn was blowing thru out the approach.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N888Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 320D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 320D0029
- Airframe hours
- 4,200
- Engine
- Continental TSI0-520B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Grand Prairie Flying Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · February 18, 1983 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- LIT · Little Rock, AR
- Airport
- 4M3 · Carlisle, runway 36, 4,500 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 49
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 2,480 total · 8 in this make and model · 2,294 as pilot in command · 116 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 45° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg