- Date
- February 9, 1983, 14:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Davis, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N83223Piper PA-44-180T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830209003799A
- Case key
- 23612
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
While practicing a simulated single eng condition, the student turned toward the arpt. The instructor (CFI) stated that the student treated the simulated emergency like he would for loss of power in a single eng acft; I.e., he turned to the nearest rwy which was downwind. Also, the student forgot to extend the gear. The CFI was aware of the situation, but elected to wait until the latter part of the approach to see if the student would realize his mistakes. The CFI had found this technique of teaching to be successful in the past. However, he reported that he became distracted & allowed the student to forget to lower the landing gear. Subsequently, the student landed with the gear retracted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N83223
- Reported as
- Piper PA-44-180T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 44-8107036
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-E1A6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Capitol Sky Park
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- SAC · Sacramento, CA
- Airport
- 2Q3 · Yolo County, runway 34, 6,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 33
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,567 total · 79 in this make and model · 1,520 as pilot in command · 71 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.