- Date
- March 30, 1984, 18:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Daytona Beach, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N12353Beech N-35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 31113
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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
Gear retraction - inadvertentCause
Checklist - improperCause
Analysis
The acft landing gear collapsed during landing. The plt said he did a 'gump' checklist prior to landing and believed he was in a landing configuration. He also stated that he did'not know weather or not he raised the gear during the landingflare'.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N12353
- Reported as
- Beech N-35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-6719
- Airframe hours
- 3,129
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-N, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Lakeland Disposal Service Inc.
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 1, 1983 · 142 hours before
- Departed
- JAX · Jacksonville, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- DAE · Daytona, runway 24R, 7,500 × 100 ft, concrete
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 57
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,935 total · 4,421 in this make and model · 4,835 as pilot in command · 38 in the last 90 days · 66 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 260° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 52 °F