- Date
- August 2, 1986, 10:34 local (15:34 UTC)
- Place
- Crestview, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7992PPiper PA-24-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 31684
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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
While on final aprch with the ldg gear extended for ldg, the plt observed another acft ahead of him which he felt he was overtaking. He elected to execute a go-around & while on downwind leg, the plt retracted the gear absent-mindedly thinking he was extending it. He stated that he was unable to hear the ldg gear warning horn because he was wearing a headset. The acft landed gear-up.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7992P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 24-3231
- Airframe hours
- 3,052
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-A1D5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- James R. Gotcher, Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 10, 1986 · 57 hours before
- Departed
- FL17 · Niceville, FL
- Destination
- CEW · Crestview, FL
- Airport
- CEW · Crestview, runway 35, 8,000 × 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
- 65
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 677 total · 56 in this make and model · 531 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 97 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CEW