- Date
- January 19, 1991, 09:14 local (14:14 UTC)
- Place
- Orlando, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N27759Piper PA-31-350
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910119035219A
- Case key
- 32814
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to follow proper procedures resulting in a gearup landing.
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.
Gear not extended
Procedures/directives - not followedCause
Analysis
The acft was landed gear up. The landing gear system was operationally tested & operated normally.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N27759
- Reported as
- Piper PA-31-350
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31-7852150
- Airframe hours
- 12,073
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540-J2BD, 350 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Top Flight Air Service, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Top Flight Air Service, Inc.
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 11, 1991 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- MLB · Melbourne, FL
- Airport
- MCO · Orlando Int'L, runway 18, 12,004 × 300 ft, concrete
N27759Registration cancelled Apr 8, 2011 · Piper PA-31-350Airframe modelPiper PA-31-350Engine modelLycoming TI0-540 series
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
- 30
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 3,200 total · 500 in this make and model · 2,500 as pilot in command · 200 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- MCO, 1 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.