- Date
- October 3, 2005, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Providence, RI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N72BGBeech E-55
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA FSDO-01
- FAA report
- 20051003033689A
- Case key
- 63033
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to verify landing gear extension after a landing gear malfunction, 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
While en route to the pilot's home airport, the pilot noticed that a landing gear system circuit breaker had tripped, which he then reset. Upon arriving in the vicinity of the destination airport, the pilot selected the landing gear down position, while watching the circuit breaker to see if it would trip again, which it did. He then lowered the flaps and landed unknowing with the landing gear retracted, substantially damaging the airplane. The pilot later stated, "I should have looked at the 3 green (landing gear position indicator) lights."
Factual narrative
While enroute to the pilot's home airport, the pilot noticed that a landing gear system circuit breaker had tripped, which he then reset. Upon arriving in the vicinity of the destination airport, the pilot selected the landing gear down position, while watching the circuit breaker to see if it would trip again, which it did. He then lowered the flaps and landed unknowing with the landing gear retracted, substantially damaging the airplane. The pilot later stated, "I should have looked at the 3 green (landing gear position indicator) lights."
Aircraft
- Registration
- N72BG
- Reported as
- Beech E-55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TE-1198
- Airframe hours
- 6,270
- Engines
- Continental IO-520-C, 285 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental IO-520-C, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 1, 2005 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- FRG · Farmingdale, NY
- Destination
- PVD · Providence, RI
- Airport
- PVD · Theodore Francis Green, runway 23, 7,166 × 150 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
- 69
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 1, 2005
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 11,282 total · 6,000 in this make and model · 63 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,600 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.45 inHg
- Observed at
- PVD
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.