- Date
- March 23, 1985, 10:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Hot Springs, AR
- Injuries
- 9 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N508SSSwearingen SA226TC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Safety recommendations
- Yes
- FAA report
- 19850323011539A
- Case key
- 33826
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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 first officer was making the landing and the acft bounced during touchdown. The captain's right hand, which had beennear the floor to the right of his seat, bumped the landing gear selector to the up position as the captain reached for the yoke. The aircraft then landed with the gear retracted. Although the landing gear selector handle latch mechanism operated as designed, tests showed the mechanism offered little resistance to inadvertent movement to the up position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N508SS
- Reported as
- Swearingen SA226TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 5C376
- Airframe hours
- 10,717
- Engine
- Garrett TPE331 SERIES, 840 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Air Midwest Skyways, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Air Midwest Skyways, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · March 16, 1985 · 45 hours before
- Departed
- LIT · Little Rock, AR
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- HOT · Hot Spring Mem, runway 23, 6,600 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 28
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,032 total · 1,280 in this make and model · 150 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 61 °F
- Observed at
- HOT
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.