Beechcraft 95-B55B (T42A) N38KS
27 March 2001 · Watkins, Colorado, United States · No injuries
Summary
On 27 March 2001 at about 22:40 local time, a Beechcraft 95-B55B (T42A) registered N38KS, operated by Enterprise Airline Academy, was involved in an accident near Watkins, Colorado, United States. 3 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.
The record
- Date
- at 22:40
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Watkins, Colorado, United States
- Nearest airport
- Front Range (FTG)
- Coordinates
- 39.7506, -104.5995
- Aircraft
- Beechcraft 95-B55B (T42A)
- Registration
- N38KS
- Category
- Airplane
- Engines
- 2
- Operator
- Enterprise Airline Academy
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Instructional
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- Englewood → Watkins
- Aircraft damage
- Destroyed
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- DEN01LA076
People
Nobody was injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Probable cause
An inadvertent landing gear retracted landing by the CFI during an instructional flight conducting a touch-and-go landing.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
While conducting an instructional flight with two student pilots, the flight instructor failed to lower the landing gear prior to a touch-and-go landing. The aircraft landed with the landing gear retracted and caught fire. All three occupants exited without injury. Examination of the aircraft following the accident revealed that the right throttle landing gear warning lever had rotated 90 degrees and was hung up on the left mixture control lever, thus moving the right throttle also moved the left mixture. It could not be determined whether the warning horn rod position affected the landing gear warning system operation.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
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| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Nov 2001 | Beechcraft 95-B55 | Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States | - | Fatal | 1 |
| 31 Jul 2001 | Beechcraft 95-B55 | Xenia, Ohio, United States | Wright Patterson AFB Aero Club | Fatal | 2 |
| 17 Jan 2001 | Beechcraft 95-55 | Dijon, France | Sarl Clovis | Fatal | 4 |
| 4 Oct 2001 | Beechcraft 95-B55 | Alvarado, Texas, United States | Alamo Aviation, Inc. | Fatal | 2 |
| 17 Jan 2001 | Beechcraft 95-D55 | Rendsburg-Schac, Germany | Deutsche Verkehrsfliegerschule, Hamburg | Serious injuries | - |
| 19 Feb 2001 | Beechcraft 95-B55 | Norris, South Dakota, United States | - | Fatal | 3 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Mar 2001 | Cessna T210L | Howard, Colorado, United States | - | Fatal | 1 |
| 9 Jun 2001 | Luscombe 8E | Longmont, Colorado, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 9 Sep 2001 | Boeing A75N1 (PT17) | Watkins, Colorado, United States | - | Minor injuries | - |
| 10 Nov 2001 | Esbenshade STARDUSTER TOO SA300 | Evans, Colorado, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 23 Aug 2001 | Aviat A-1 | Montrose, Colorado, United States | - | Fatal | 2 |
| 28 Aug 2001 | Bradley RANS S-7 | Fruita, Colorado, United States | - | Minor injuries | - |