- Date
- December 18, 1992, 09:36 local (14:36 UTC)
- Place
- Miami, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9066SBeech A36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921218053239A
- Case key
- 33207
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
The pilot in command's inadvertent activation of the landing gear switch while attempting to raise wing flaps during landing rollout, resulting in collapse of the landing gear. Contributing to the accident was the pilot in command's diverted attention to the runway turnoff point and an air carrier aircraft landing behind him.
Analysis
Pilot stated that after landing while attempting to raise flaps to get weight on wheels, he inadvertently raised the gear handle. The landing gear then collapsed. He stated he was distracted by focusing on the runway turnoff and that an airliner was landing behind him.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9066S
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E-1305
- Airframe hours
- 1,905
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-VA, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Pitzer, Bruce W.
- Registered owner
- Pitzer, Bruce W.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 19, 1992 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- SRQ · Sarasota, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MIA · Miami International, runway 9, 10,502 × 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
- 58
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,730 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 1,730 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MIA, 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.
Other investigations on N9066S · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.