- Date
- May 13, 1986, 17:20 local (22:20 UTC)
- Place
- Mountain Home, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2015KBeech A36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860513016909A
- Case key
- 34173
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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 PIC rptd gear failure and gear warning horn about 5 to 10 seconds into the landing roll. The PIC rptd 3 in the green before touchdown to the rwy. Subsequent inspection of the landing gear showed no mechanical or other deficiency. Inadvertent movement of the landing gear switch prior to the switch engagement would cycle the landing gear retraction sequence. Gear retraction and extension tests performed on the acft subsequent to the accident failed to disclose a pblm.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2015K
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E1312
- Airframe hours
- 1,013
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Dr. James Snipes
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 26, 1986 · 7 hours before
- Departed
- JLN · Joplin, MO
- Destination
- 2M9 · Mountain Home, AR
- Airport
- 2M9 · Baxter Co., runway 23, 3,500 × 50 ft, macadam
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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 770 total · 419 in this make and model · 720 as pilot in command · 26 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 13 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HRO, 38 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.