- Date
- April 7, 1984, 16:59 local (21:59 UTC)
- Place
- Titusville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6890YPiper PA-23-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840407008859A
- Case key
- 31114
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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 plt could not get the left main gear extended for landing and then could not get the right main and nose gear to retract for a'belly'landing. The acft was landed on the sod beside the rwy with the left main retracted. The nose gear collapsed during the landing slide. After the accident the acft was jacked up and after the left gear doors were pryed open the left gear fell out and locked down. With the nose gear and left gear doors out of the system the main gears operated normally. The nose & left gear doors were omitted from the test due to impact damage. This acft had only flown about 1 hour in the last year.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6890Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 27-4243
- Airframe hours
- 3,400
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-C4B5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Nolan L. Polley
- Registered owner
- Kanga Exporting Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 1983 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- COI · Merritt Island, FL
- Airport
- TIX · Titusville-Cocoa, runway 27, 5,001 × 100 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 12,000 total · 1,002 in this make and model · 12,000 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 8 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- TIX
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.