- Date
- August 23, 1989, 19:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- St Augustine, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8517DPiper PA-44-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 5, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890823034979A
- Case key
- 32487
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Probable cause
Inadvertent retraction of the landing gear, and the instructor pilot's inadequate supervision of the flight.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
Both the instructor (CFI) & student plt rprtd that the landing gear was extended to the down & locked psn while the acft was in the traffic pattern. Also, a plt in another acft behind the PA-44 noted that the gear was extended. However,as the acft was landed, it settled to the rwy & subsequently stopped with the gear retracted. The CFI rprtd there was no warning horn or lights during the apch. After the acft was raised from the rwy, the warning horn operated normally. Also, the gear operated normally during a retraction test.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8517D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-44-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 44-799-5312
- Engine
- Lycoming L/O-360-E1A6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- First Coast Flight Center, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- SGJ · St Augustine, runway 13, 6,947 × 150 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
- 24
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,024 total · 35 in this make and model · 204 in the last 90 days · 28 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- CRG, 25 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.