- Date
- May 23, 1990, 00:55 local (04:55 UTC)
- Place
- Tampa, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N62910Piper PA-31-350
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900523034189I
- Case key
- 32582
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to follow procedures outlined in the checklist, resulting in the airplane landing with landing gear retracted.
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 was on a VFR approach for landing on runway 27 at Tampa international airport, Tampa, Florida. The control tower reported traffic south of the extended centerline for runway 27 at 1600 feet AGL. The pilot interrupted his before landing check, looked, and identified the reported traffic. The pilot continued with the before landing check and omitted lowering the landing gear. The airplane was landed with the landing gear retracted, and the airplane sustained minor damage. The pilot was not injured.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N62910
- Reported as
- Piper PA-31-350
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31-7652163
- Airframe hours
- 8,231
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540J2BD, 350 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Top Flight Air Service
- Registered owner
- Top Flight Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 11, 1990 · 14 hours before
- Departed
- MCO · Orlando, FL
- Airport
- TPA · Tampa International, runway 27, 6,998 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 29
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,626 total · 280 in this make and model · 4,302 as pilot in command · 197 in the last 90 days · 48 in the last 30 days · 64 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 280° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 22,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TPA
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.