- Date
- November 27, 1988, 11:10 local (16:10 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Pierce, FL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N45MAPiper PA-60-601P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 29, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881127069839A
- Case key
- 32366
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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
Air traffic controllers stated that while the aircraft was on short final they noticed that the gear on the aircraft was not extended. They attempted to contact the pilot but he never responded. The pilot stated that he failed to extend the landing gear prior to landing. No evidence was found to indicate any preaccident failure or malfunction of the landing gear operating system.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N45MA
- Reported as
- Piper PA-60-601P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 61P-0454-175
- Airframe hours
- 1,777
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-S1A5, 290 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Buka, Norman J.
- Registered owner
- Miresse Aircraft Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 1, 1988 · 21 hours before
- Departed
- MYAT · Tr. Cay,Bermuda, OF
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- FPR · St. Lucie County Intl., runway 14, 5,000 × 200 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
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,868 total · 160 in this make and model · 1,703 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FPR
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.