- Date
- April 26, 1989, 21:45 local (Apr 27, 1989, 02:45 UTC)
- Place
- Jacksonville, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N39RDSwearingen SA-226-AT
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report August 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890426010039A
- Case key
- 32288
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot in command to use the airplane landing checklist and assure that the landing gear was down and locked prior to landing.
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 pilot in command of an on demand single pilot air-taxi cargo flight landed on the runway with the landing gear in the up position and attempted to lower the gear after the propellers had struck the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N39RD
- Reported as
- Swearingen SA-226-AT
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AT002
- Airframe hours
- 5,713
- Engine
- Garrett TPE3313U303G, 840 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Corporate Airways, doing business as Corporate Airways
- Registered owner
- Richard R Donaldson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · March 11, 1989 · 34 hours before
- Departed
- SAV · Savannah, GA
- Destination
- JAX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- JAX · Jacksonville, runway 13, 8,000 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 32
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,700 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 5,650 as pilot in command · 75 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 240° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JAX
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.