Piper PA-30 N7195Y

Summary

On 18 September 2008 at about 19:46 local time, a Piper PA-30 registered N7195Y was involved in an accident near Jefferson, Georgia, 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

18 September 2008 at 19:46

Classification

Accident

Location

Jefferson, Georgia, United States

Nearest airport

Jackson County Airport (19A)

Coordinates

34.1744, -83.5611

Aircraft

Piper PA-30

Registration

N7195Y

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Lawrenceville → Jefferson

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

NYC08CA315

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's failure to follow the airplane manufacturer's landing gear failure and emergency extension procedures. Contributing to the accident was a malfunction of the landing gear system for undetermined reasons.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

Upon arrival at his destination airport, the pilot of a PA-30 attempted to extend his landing gear in preparation for landing. He discovered that one of the landing gear system circuit breakers had tripped. He attempted to reset the circuit breaker, but it would not reset. He then attempted to reset it a second time and was successful; he observed that the "green" landing gear down light was illuminated. During the landing roll, however, the landing gear collapsed and the airplane was substantially damaged. During the recovery of the airplane, when the master switch was turned on by the pilot, the landing gear dropped into the extended position. During interviews with the pilot, it was discovered that after the circuit breaker was reset, he did not continue with the "landing gear failure and manual gear extension" procedure, which was published in the Pilot's Operating Handbook for the accident airplane. A postaccident examination by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector revealed that the landing gear would extend and lock in the down position when the procedure was utilized.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.