- Date
- August 16, 1988, 13:21 local (17:21 UTC)
- Place
- Vero Beach, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2193VPiper PA-44-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880816069399I
- Case key
- 32070
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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 CFI & his pvt plt-rated multi eng student were conducting touch & go ldgs in preparation for the multi-eng rating. The CFI stated that one of the ldgs was harder than usual, but not overly hard. On the next aprch, they noticed the rt gear indicator was not showing down & locked. The tower advised there was a problem with the rt gear. All attempts to get gear down & locked failed so a decision was made by the CFI to land with all gear up. Insp by FAA revealed the rt gear strut housing had failed due to shear and torsion as a result of a side load & hard ldg.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2193V
- Reported as
- Piper PA-44-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7995266
- Airframe hours
- 3,874
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-E1A6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Flight Safety, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 3, 1988 · 58 hours before
- Airport
- VRB · Vero Beach, runway 11, 6,271 × 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
- 51
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 3,120 total · 105 in this make and model · 3,080 as pilot in command · 330 in the last 90 days · 144 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- VRB
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.