- Date
- November 6, 1989, 14:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Flagstaff, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N80024Beech D17S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 22, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891106044549A
- Case key
- 26677
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Probable cause
An inadvertent gear-up landing by the pilot. A contributing factor was the pilot's acceptance of a visual gear-up warning as normal since it is on all the time.
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
Aircraft landed gear-up. The pilot stated that both the tower and somebody else tried to give him an advisory but the transmissions were blocked by each other. He also observed the red gear-up warning light, but later stated that since it's on all the time he probably associated it as a normal situation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N80024
- Reported as
- Beech D17S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4915
- Engine
- P&W R-985, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Connie L. Ashura
- Departed
- Montezuma, AZ
- Destination
- FLG · Flagstaff, AZ
- Airport
- FLG · Flagstaff, runway 21, 7,000 × 150 ft, macadam
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
- Flight hours
- 2,312 total · 290 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 12 knots, gusting 14
- Visibility
- 75 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FLG
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.