- Date
- August 12, 1982, 16:05 local (23:05 UTC)
- Place
- Sacramento, CA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9031NAero Commander 500S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 12, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820812070089A
- Case key
- 72451
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Complete gear collapsed
Gear retraction - inadvertentCause
Supervision - improperCause
Analysis
Pax/plt in right seat inadvertently raised gear instead of flaps.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9031N
- Reported as
- Aero Commander 500S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1867-43
- Airframe hours
- 2,298
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-E-1B5, 290 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- David Bohannon Company
- Departed
- SFO · San Francisco, CA
- Destination
- C · Vannuys, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- SAC · Executive, runway 12, 3,954 × 100 ft, asphalt
N9031NRegistration cancelled May 13, 2011 · Aero Commander 500 SAirframe modelAero Commander 500 SEngine modelLycoming TI0-540 series
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
- 43
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,153 total · 51 in this make and model · 2,896 as pilot in command · 46 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Temperature
- 194 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SAC
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.