- Date
- February 11, 1984, 17:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Opa Locka, FL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9707YBeech 95-A55
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840211052209I
- Case key
- 31034
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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.
Analysis
The acft was intentionally landed with the landing gear retracted when the lt main gear could not be extended. Inspection of the acft revealed that the spring which pulls the lt main gear uplock out of the way when released had become disconnected from the uplock due to corrosion damage to the metal at the attach point.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9707Y
- Reported as
- Beech 95-A55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC-417
- Airframe hours
- 2,280
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-L, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Leonard Frishman
- Registered owner
- Ambrose Realty Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 15, 1983 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- MYBG · Grt Harbour Cay, OF
- Destination
- OPF · Opa Locka, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- OPE · Opa-Locka, runway 18L, 4,374 × 244 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
- 50
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OPF
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.