- Date
- June 9, 1984, 21:49 local (Jun 10, 1984, 04:49 UTC)
- Place
- Concord, CA
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9481YBeech 35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840609026379A
- Case key
- 24307
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
Weather condition - crosswindFactor
Gear retraction - inadvertentCause
Self-induced pressureFactor
Analysis
The plt stated he landed in a x-wind & wanted to raise the flaps but raised the gear instead.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9481Y
- Reported as
- Beech 35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D6660
- Engine
- Continental IO-470N, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Edward A. Weiss
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Departed
- SBA · Santa Barbara, CA
- Destination
- CCR · Concord, CA
- Airport
- CCR · Buchanan, runway 19L, 5,000 × 150 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
- 53
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,025 total · 900 in this make and model · 39 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- Variable at 20 knots, gusting 24
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CCR
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.