- Date
- April 29, 1991, 09:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Goodyear, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5585YBeech F33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910429013109A
- Case key
- 27184
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to ensure that the airplane's landing gear was extended by the passenger who he was allowing fly the airplane. A contributing factor related to the pilot's inadequate supervision of the passenger.
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 operator authorized the pilot to fly with a passenger for the purpose of evaluating the passenger's capabilities as a prospective pilot. The pilot allowed the passenger to fly the airplane. On final approach the pilot failed to notice that the passenger had not extended the landing gear, and the airplane touched down with its gear retracted. During the subsequent examination of the airplane the landing gear and its related warning system were found to operate normally.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5585Y
- Reported as
- Beech F33A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CE-1389
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-BB, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Other work use · Part 91
- Operator
- Airline Training Center
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Airport
- GYR · Phoenix-Goodyear Municip., runway 3, 8,500 × 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
- 38
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,794 total · 285 in this make and model · 285 as pilot in command · 78 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
- Observed at
- GYR, 1 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.