New Piper PA-28R N834PC

Summary

On 22 September 2016 at about 01:30 local time, a New Piper PA-28R registered N834PC, operated by Saint Louis University, was involved in an accident near East St. Louis, Illinois, United States. One person was 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

22 September 2016 at 01:30

Classification

Accident

Location

East St. Louis, Illinois, United States

Nearest airport

St Louis Downtown (CPS)

Coordinates

38.5703, -90.1550

Aircraft

New Piper PA-28R

Registration

N834PC

Category

Airplane

Year built

2006

Engines

1

Operator

Saint Louis University

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

East St. Louis → East St. Louis

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Night

NTSB number

GAA16CA506

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear, which resulted in a gear-up landing.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot reported that after four stop and go landings under night visual meteorological conditions, he planned to terminate the flight with a soft field landing. He further reported that as the airplane touched down, he heard scraping and the airplane subsequently slid to a stop on the runway. The pilot reported that he forgot to extend the landing gear for landing and did not hear the landing gear warning horn through his conventional (non-noise canceling) headset.   The fuselage sustained substantial damage.     The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.   During a postaccident interview with the chief flight instructor of the operator, he reported that the gear warning horn in the accident airplane was normally audible in the cockpit, but does not sound directly through the headset. He further reported that they are in the process of installing a "supplemental voice" gear warning horn that will sound through the airplane's audio panel.     

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.