- Date
- September 28, 1986, 13:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Seneca Falls, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N525TPBeech BE-55
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860928085399A
- Case key
- 30427
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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 acft was landed gear up and was subsequently destroyed by fire. The plt admitted he forgot to lower the gear. It wasconfirmed during the post accident inspection that the gear selector was in the up position and the gear doors were closed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N525TP
- Reported as
- Beech BE-55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TF-419
- Airframe hours
- 4,200
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-C/CB, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John S. Bierhardt
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 1, 1985 · 8 hours before
- Airport
- OG7 · Seneca Falls, runway 18, 3,200 × 50 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
- 59
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 7,700 total · 2,752 in this make and model · 5 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.