Piper PA-34-200 N303RC

Summary

On 9 June 2001 at about 18:55 local time, a Piper PA-34-200 registered N303RC was involved in an accident near Provo, Utah, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

9 June 2001 at 18:55

Classification

Accident

Location

Provo, Utah, United States

Nearest airport

Provo Municipal (KPVU)

Coordinates

40.2192, -111.6905

Aircraft

Piper PA-34-200

Registration

N303RC

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Provo → Provo

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

DEN01LA114

Nobody was injured.

inadvertent retraction of the landing gear by the pilot rated student during landing roll. A contributing factors was the failure of the instructor to adequately supervise the student.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The instructor told an FAA inspector that he and his commercial-rated student had been in the pattern doing landings. He further stated that they came in "a little fast and when we touched down we ballooned." The pilot receiving instruction stated that "we were doing landings and approached a little fast and when the airplane touched down, we ballooned back into the air...the instructor was yelling at me and in the confusion I was not exactly sure what the instructor was saying." When the airplane touched down a second time, the right main and nose landing gear collapsed, and the propellers hit the runway. The flight instructor stated that "the student is believed to have inadvertently moved the gear selector switch from the down position to the up position causing the landing gear to retract."

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.