- Date
- November 13, 1988, 15:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Melbourne, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N32393Piper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881113071149I
- Case key
- 32322
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Analysis
The plt stated that while doing touch and go landings at Melbourne, he put the gear handle down but did not check to confirm that it was down. He continued the approach and landed gear up. Afterward, the pilot noticed that the gear pump circuit breaker had popped. Post incident retraction check of the landing gear revealed the gear worked normally.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N32393
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7535050
- Airframe hours
- 4,152
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Flight Safety Int'L, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Flight Safety Int'L Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · October 28, 1988 · 43 hours before
- Departed
- X26 · Sebastian, FL
- Airport
- MLB · Melbourne, runway 9, 6,000 × 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
- 18
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 132 total · 30 in this make and model · 88 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MLB
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.