- Date
- January 24, 1985, 21:05 local (Jan 25, 1985, 03:05 UTC)
- Place
- Dallas, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N600PSwearingen SA26-T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850124012899A
- Case key
- 21660
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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 landing gear retracted during the takeoff roll & the acft dropped to the rwy surface & slid to a stop. No obvious reason for the unwanted retraction was noted by FAA maintenance personnel who did a post accident exam of the acft. The gear selector handle was found in the 'gear extended' position. An exam revealed the gear handle could easily be moved thru its full range of travel even though it was moved thru a dentent. Also, the plt's seat arm would lightly touch the gear selector handle when the seat was full foward.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N600P
- Reported as
- Swearingen SA26-T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- T26-6
- Airframe hours
- 5,300
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-28, 550 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Bell Leasing, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 10, 1984 · 54 hours before
- Destination
- TPL · Temple, TX
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- DAL · Love, runway 31R, 7,751 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- Age
- 31
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,224 total · 381 in this make and model · 5,959 as pilot in command · 67 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAL
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.