Pilot Debrief

BEECH 76 near Vacaville, CA — 2018-04-27

Final reportGAA18CA239
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Date
2018-04-27
Location
Vacaville, CA, USA
Airport
VCB
Aircraft
BEECH 76
Registration
N54V
Category
Airplane
Highest injury
None
Fatalities
0

Probable cause

The pilot under instruction’s failure to extend the landing gear and the flight instructor’s inadequate supervision and failure to ensure that the landing gear was extended.

NTSB narrative

The flight instructor was giving instruction in the multiengine, retractable-landing gear-equipped airplane. On the downwind leg in the pattern, he asked the pilot under instruction to perform a simulated single-engine emergency landing with the left engine shutdown. It was the pilot under instruction's first training flight in a multiengine airplane, and he asked a series of questions of the flight instructor during the procedure. The instructor reported that they both became distracted and forgot to extend the landing gear. The airplane landed with the landing gear retracted and came to rest on the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the wingspar and longerons. The flight instructor reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.

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