- Date
- January 3, 1996, 14:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Camas, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6297PPiper PA-24-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 9, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19960103026449A
- Case key
- 42325
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
Failure of the pilot to ensure that the landing gear was extended before landing.
Analysis
The pilot reported that he forgot to extend the landing gear prior to touchdown on the runway.
Factual narrative
On January 3, 1996, at 1400 Pacific standard time, a Piper PA-24- 250, N6297P, was landed with the landing gear retracted at Grove Field, Camas, Washington. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and no flight plan was filed. The airplane was substantially damaged and the private pilot, the sole occupant, was not injured. The flight had departed from Sandy, Oregon, approximately five minutes prior to the accident.
The pilot reported that he forgot to extend the landing gear prior to touch down on runway 25.
The occurrence was not reported until January 10, 1996. The damage to the airplane could not be assessed until January 25, 1996, due to limited access to the airplane.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6297P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 24-1408
- Airframe hours
- 2,396
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-A1C5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Wilbert L. Mehrer
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 18, 1995 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- S48 · Sandy, OR
- Airport
- WA10 · Grove Field, runway 25, 2,710 × 40 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
- 68
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,500 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 4 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Temperature
- 64 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N6297P · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.