- Date
- September 24, 2011, 10:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Riverton, WY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7549NBeech 36
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 1, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20110924023569A
- Case key
- 81904
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadvertent retraction of the landing gear during the landing roll.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot said that after landing he inadvertently moved the main landing gear lever rather than the flap lever to the retract position, which resulted in the collapse of all three landing gear and substantial damage to the undercarriage of the airplane. The pilot reported no anomalies with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot said that after landing he inadvertently selected the main landing gear lever rather than the flap lever to the retract position, which resulted in the collapse of all three landing gear and substantial damage to the undercarriage of the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7549N
- Reported as
- Beech 36 (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E-66
- Airframe hours
- 4,689
- Engine
- Teledyne Continental IO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 8, 2011 · 38 hours before
- Departed
- RIW · Riverton, WY
- Destination
- RIW · Riverton, WY
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- RIW · Riverton Regional Airport, runway 28, 8,203 × 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
- 49
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 31, 2010
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 219 total · 130 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.31 inHg
- Observed at
- RiW
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 26, 2011, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 467 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.