Beechcraft 76 N54V

Summary

On 27 April 2018 at about 18:00 local time, a Beechcraft 76 registered N54V, operated by Wings Flight School, was involved in an accident near Vacaville, California, 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

27 April 2018 at 18:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Vacaville, California, United States

Nearest airport

Nut Tree (VCB)

Coordinates

38.3783, -121.9611

Aircraft

Beechcraft 76

Registration

N54V

Category

Airplane

Year built

1980

Engines

2

Operator

Wings Flight School

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Vacaville → Vacaville

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

GAA18CA239

Nobody was injured.

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.

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

Read the full 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.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.