# NTSB MIA84LA130: Beech N-35, N12353, Daytona Beach, FL, March 30, 1984

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report
- Date: March 30, 1984, 18:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place: Daytona Beach, FL
- Coordinates: 29.049755, -81.310111 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=29.0498&lon=-81.3101&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 2 uninjured
- Status: Completed
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 31113
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=MIA84LA130
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/31113/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA84LA130

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Complete gear collapsed, landing - roll
  - gear retraction - inadvertent, pilot in command (cause)
  - checklist - improper, pilot in command (cause)

## 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 (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BEECH N-35
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: D-6719
- Airframe hours: 3129
- Engines: 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.

- Pilot; age 57; 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

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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