- Date
- March 10, 1987, 01:02 local (06:02 UTC)
- Place
- Jamaica, NY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- CGJWWSwearingen SA-226AT
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report October 6, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 30617
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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.
In flight collision with terrain/water
Wheels up landing - performed
Landing gear,normal retraction/extension assembly - failure,partialCause
Analysis
The flight landed at kennedy international airport with the landing gears retracted due to a failure of the right main landing gear extension system.
Aircraft
- Registration
- CGJWW
- Reported as
- Swearingen SA-226AT
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 013
- Airframe hours
- 10,266
- Engine
- Garrett TPE-331-30303, 840 lbs thrust, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 129
- Registered owner
- Soundair Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 3, 1987
- Departed
- Toronto
- Destination
- JFK · Jamaica, NY
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- JFK · Kennedy, runway 4, 8,400 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 29
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,035 total · 1,450 in this make and model · 2,823 as pilot in command · 200 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 24° at 23 knots, gusting 28
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,800 ft broken
- Temperature
- 16 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg