- Date
- August 13, 1983, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Catarina, TX
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3003PPiper PA-23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830813040489A
- Case key
- 21018
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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
The acft was damaged when the landing gear was retracted during landing rollout at Catarina, TX. The plt identifed himself as larry day from chattanooga, TN. He claimed to have had engine trouble and was unable to extend the gear for landing. Post accident examination of the landing gear system revealed damage indicating the gear was retracted during landing rollout. Someone had tried to raise the acft and straighten the propellers prior to the investigation. Later a Mr. Lawrence c. day of hixson, TN was located. He said someone had been using his name whose description matched that ofthe plt of N3003P. Efforts to identify the plt and passengers of the accident acft had been unsuccessful.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3003P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 23-913
- Airframe hours
- 4,469
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A1A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John Shropshire
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 6, 1981 · 115 hours before
- Airport
- OTO · Briscoes, runway 31, 4,000 × 50 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
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Right
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -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.