- Date
- November 9, 1985, 15:21 local (20:21 UTC)
- Place
- Miami, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2103KPiper PA-44-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19851109075169I
- Case key
- 31520
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt stated that he was on a practice instrument apch & after arriving at minimums, declared a missed apch, retracted his landing gear & flaps but decided to land and continued his apch & inadvertently landed gear up.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2103K
- Reported as
- Piper PA-44-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 44-7995183
- Airframe hours
- 1,698
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-E1A6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Caicos Enterpries Unl.,Inc.
- Registered owner
- Gerry J. Holmes
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 30, 1985 · 48 hours before
- Airport
- TMB · Tamiami, runway 9, 4,999 × 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,813 total · 79 in this make and model · 1,478 as pilot in command · 79 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TMB
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.