- Date
- October 7, 1986, 07:58 local (11:58 UTC)
- Place
- Jacksonville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N338NASmith, Ted Aerostar Aerostar 600
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 31727
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
In flight collision with terrain/water
Gear extension - not performedCause
Checklist - not usedCause
Wheels up landing - inadvertentCause
Overconfidence in personal abilityFactor
ComplacencyFactor
Analysis
Reportedly, during an ILS approach to land, the pilot did not use the company approved checklist and landed with the gear retracted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N338NA
- Reported as
- Smith, Ted Aerostar Aerostar 600 (AEROSTAR 6)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 600-487-158
- Airframe hours
- 2,837
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1J5, 290 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Top Flight, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · October 6, 1986 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- GNV · Gainesville, FL
- Destination
- JAX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- JAX · Jacksonville Intl, runway 25, 8,000 × 150 ft, concrete
N338NARegistered now · Smith AEROSTAR 600Airframe modelSmith AEROSTAR 600Engine modelLycoming IO-540 series
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
- 47
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,672 total · 497 in this make and model · 3,471 as pilot in command · 156 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JAX