- Date
- August 5, 1998, 11:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Pinedale, WY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4BABeech B36TC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 16, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19980805029099I
- Case key
- 43777
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
The pilot not following his Pilot Operating checklist procedures. A factor was the aborted landing which interfered with the pilot's normal traffic pattern habit.
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 reported that he flew a 'traffic pattern' for a landing and when he turned final, another airplane taxied onto the active runway in front of him. He aborted the landing and flew a '360 degree track' for another landing attempt. The pilot said that on his second landing attempt, he forgot to put the landing gear down and he subsequently landed with the wheels up.
Factual narrative
On August 5, 1998, approximately 1130 mountain daylight time, a Beech B36TC, N4BA, was substantially damaged during a wheels-up landing at Pinedale Airport, Pinedale, Wyoming. The commercial pilot, the sole occupant in the airplane, was not injured. The airplane was operated by Sublette Investment Co. Inc. under Title 14 CFR Part 91. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the local area personal flight which originated approximately one hour before the accident. No flight plan was filed.
The pilot reported that he flew a "traffic pattern" for a landing and when he turned final, another airplane taxied onto the active runway in front of him. He aborted the landing and flew a "360 degree track" for another landing attempt. The pilot said that on his second landing attempt, he forgot to put the landing gear down. The left and right engine keels were bent, and a stringer and a rib were damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4BA
- Reported as
- Beech B36TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- EA-356
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Vernon T. Delgado
- Registered owner
- Sublette Investment Co Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 30, 1997
- Departed
- PNA
- Airport
- PNA · Pinedale Airport, runway 29, 7,100 × 100 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
- Age
- 66
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,141 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 3,141 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BPI, 26 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N4BA · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.