ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 327235
| Date: | Saturday 23 March 1985 |
| Time: | 10:45 |
| Type: |  Swearingen SA226-TC Metro II |
| Owner/operator: | Scheduled Skyways |
| Registration: | N508SS |
| MSN: | TC-376 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1980 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 10717 hours |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 9 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Hot Springs-Memorial Field, AR (HOT) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Little Rock National Airport, AR (LIT/KLIT) |
| Hot Springs-Memorial Field, AR (HOT/KHOT) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The first officer was making the landing and the aircraft bounced during touchdown. The captain's right hand, which had been near the floor to the right of his seat, bumped the landing gear selector to the up position as the captain reached for the yoke. The aircraft then landed with the gear retracted. Although the landing gear selector handle latch mechanism operated as designed, tests showed the mechanism offered little resistance to inadvertent movement to the up position.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:
gear retraction..inadvertent..pilot in command
Contributing Factors:
landing gear,gear switch..inadequate
acft/equip,inadequate design..production/design personnel
Sources:
NTSB
History of this aircraft
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