- Date
- April 27, 1983, 10:32 local (15:32 UTC)
- Place
- Springfield, MO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8301YPiper PA-30
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830427016509A
- Case key
- 33400
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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 student pilot retracted the landing gear during landing roll. This was to be a touch and go landing and the student had just raised the flaps in preparation for takeoff. The instructor stated that during the landing roll the student pilot moved the gear handle up and down and the gear retracted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8301Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 301440
- Airframe hours
- 4,600
- Engine
- Lycoming IO 320-B1A, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Don Kordalis
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 31, 1983 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- SGF · Springfield, MO
- Flight plan
- Military VFR
- Airport
- SGF · Springfield Regional, runway 19, 7,003 × 150 ft
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
- 38
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 11,945 total · 416 in this make and model · 11,755 as pilot in command · 110 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SGF
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.