- Date
- October 12, 2025, 14:35 local (21:35 UTC)
- Place
- Olympia, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N35SBeech S35
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20251012014829A
- Case key
- 201846
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Probable cause
The pilot’s inadvertent retraction of the landing gear after landing.
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 reported that during a landing roll of a touch-and-go landing, he attempted to reconfigure the airplane for takeoff. He inadvertently raised the landing gear handle instead of the flap handle, and the landing gear began to retract. The airplane struck the ground and slid to a stop on the runway, which resulted in substantial damage to the airplane’s left wing. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N35S
- Reported as
- Beech S35 (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-7481
- Built
- 1964
- Airframe hours
- 5,796.6
- Engine
- Continental IO-540-BA3B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 6, 2025 · 0 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- OLM · Olympia Regional Airport, runway 17, 5,500 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system
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
- 67
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed, Unknown
- Last flight review
- July 26, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 405 total · 398 in this make and model · 405 as pilot in command · 0 in the last 90 days · 0 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 9,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.78 inHg
- Observed at
- OLM
- METAR
- METAR KOLM 122154Z 20009KT 10SM BKN095 10/08 A2978 RMK AO2 RAE25 SLP085 P0001 T01000083
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 4, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.5 MB 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.