FTW95LA353 · Beech 35N
Beech 35N · Accident: wheels up landing
From Perry Stokes Airport (TAD) to Q39
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW95LA353
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Beech 35N
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 35
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N149G
- Operator
- Donald Williams
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Perry Stokes Airport (TAD), Trinidad, COTo Q39
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Wheels up landing
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Checklist, not followed
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
DURING A NIGHT VISUAL APPROACH TO THE AIRPORT, LOCATED IN THE MOUNTAINS AT 8,860 FEET MSL, THE PILOT WAS HIGH AND ELECTED TO GO-AROUND. TO IMPROVE AIRCRAFT PERFORMANCE DURING THE GO-AROUND, THE PILOT RAISED THE LANDING GEAR. HE FORGOT TO LOWER THE LANDING GEAR ON THE SECOND APPROACH AND LANDED WITH THE WHEELS RETRACTED. DURING THE SECOND APPROACH, THE PILOT SAID HE GOT A WARNING HORN AND THOUGHT IT WAS THE STALL WARNING SO HE ADDED POWER AND THOUGHT HE HAD SOLVED THE PROBLEM WHEN THE HORN SILENCED. ON THIS MODEL AIRCRAFT, THE STALL HORN AND LANDING GEAR HORN ARE THE SAME HORN WITH DIFFERENT ACTIVATORS AND A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT SOUND. BY ADVANCING THE THROTTLE HE SILENCED THE LANDING GEAR WARNING HORN.
Probable cause
FAILURE BY THE PILOT TO FOLLOW THE CHECKLIST AND LOWER THE LANDING GEAR.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW95LA353
- Event ID
- 20001207X04252
- Case number
- FTW95LA353
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1995-08-19.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 0e65d84581e342208e3f1f8595743680025d120152188f7991397e878f58cea0; retrieved 2026-09-22T23:23:38.216Z.