Accident · 2000-09-18
What the record says
- Event date
- 2000-09-18
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Fatal injury
- Aircraft
- Piper PA-31T3 (N220CS)
- Operating rule
- Part 135
- Operator
- Cape Smythe Air Service Inc. Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- CAPE SMYTHE AIR SERVICE INC.
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear, his improper aborted landing procedure, and inadvertent stall/mush. Factors in the accident were an improper adjustment of the landing gear warning horn system by company maintenance personnel, and the failure of the pilot to utilize the prelanding checklist.
Source: NTSB case ANC00MA125Flight crew
Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.
Facts as the NTSB records them — GroundCheck adds no judgement. Preliminary records may be revised as the investigation proceeds.