- Date
- March 12, 1989, 13:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- St Augustine, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8417HPiper PA-34-220T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 28, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890312028659A
- Case key
- 32407
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Probable cause
Inadvertently retraction of the landing gear, and failure of the instructor pilot (CFI) to note that the gear had been retracted. A factor related to the accident was: improper flare by the student pilot.
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 multi-eng pvt plt was receiving instruction from his CFI. The plt stated the ldg was on the main gear, 'slightly hard & the plane floated up a couple of ft.' touching down again abt 50 yds down the rwy, the acft lndd on the wheels, but seemed low. The CFI admitted to a flat apch which resulted in a 'slight bounce of abt 3 ft'. The acft was placed on jacks & 8 retraction/extension cycles were performed. The gear operated normally. There was no evidence of any malfunction or failure; scuff marks on the sidewalls of the main gear tires indicated they were up as the acft skidded along the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8417H
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-220T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-8133178
- Airframe hours
- 1,200
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Regency Electric Co.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 8, 1989 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- CRG · Jacksonville, FL
- Airport
- SGJ · St Augustine, runway 24, 2,600 × 60 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
- 32
- 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
- 518 total · 57 in this make and model · 408 as pilot in command · 66 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CRG, 27 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.