- Date
- May 21, 1997, 12:28 local (16:28 UTC)
- Place
- Griffin, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1174TBeech E55
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 31, 1997
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19970521023149A
- Case key
- 38286
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Probable cause
the pilot's failure to extend the landing gear, which resulted in a wheels up 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.
Analysis
A witness to the accident observed the airplane land gear up. The pilot stated that he was making a full stop landing and failed to extend the landing gear.
Factual narrative
On May 21, 1997, about 1228 eastern daylight time, a Beech E-55, N1174T, registered to Southeastern Air Charters, Inc., while on a 14 CFR Part 91 positioning flight, crashed while landing at Griffin-Spalding County Airport, Griffin, Georgia. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The airline transport pilot reported no injuries. The flight originated from Macon, Georgia, about 20 minutes before the accident.
A witness to the accident observed the airplane land gear up. The pilot stated that he failed to extend the landing gear. The aircraft traveled down the center of runway 32 about 1,000 feet before coming to a stop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1174T
- Reported as
- Beech E55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TE1056
- Airframe hours
- 4,402
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Bobby W. Morrow
- Registered owner
- Southeastern Air Charter, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 6, 1997 · 36 hours before
- Departed
- MCN · Macon, GA
- Destination
- 6A2
- Airport
- 6A2 · Griffin-Spalding County, runway 32, 3,300 × 75 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
- 54
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 17,000 total · 1,164 in this make and model · 14,500 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 0° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MCN, 40 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.