- Date
- July 3, 1992, 11:35 local (18:35 UTC)
- Place
- Tucson, AZ
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N91886Piper PA-28R-201
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920703026469A
- Case key
- 27680
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Probable cause
The failure of the student to extend the landing gear prior to landing and the failure of the flight instructor to properly supervise the conduct of the flight.
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 flight instructor said that he and the student were performing simulated forced landings to the airport runway. The instructor said he became preoccupied and neglected to notice that the student had failed to lower the landing gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N91886
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-201
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-37037
- Airframe hours
- 2,995
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Atti, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Mcdonnell Douglass Finance
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 30, 1992 · 95 hours before
- Departed
- CGZ · Casa Grande, AZ
- Airport
- MZJ · Pinal Airpark, runway 12, 6,860 × 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
- 34
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,251 total · 115 in this make and model · 1,200 as pilot in command · 170 in the last 90 days · 63 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 106 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N91886 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.