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A flight instructor and student pilot experienced an inadvertent landing gear retraction during a touch-and-go landing. The aircraft settled onto the runway and slid to a stop with no reported injuries.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1081484 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201304 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Viking/Turbo-Viking 17-30/31 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Takeoff |
| Route In Use | Direct |
| Flight Plan | None |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Gear Extend/Retract Mechanism |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Instructor Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 125 Flight Crew Total 8500 Flight Crew Type 5 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical |
Narrative:
While practicing crosswind landing touch and goes the student pilot on the fifth landing and after touchdown; inadvertently put the landing gear handle in the up position during the ground roll instead of retracting the flaps. The gear handle and flap handle are both located in front and down by the floor of the pilot and co-pilots seats. The approximate aircraft speed at this time was 30 to 40 KTS. The aircraft started to feel like we had a flat tire; then the student added power and when I noticed the student put the gear handle up instead of the flaps. I pulled power and the aircraft never got airborne. The aircraft slid to a stop on the side of the runway with the gear retracted. We exited the aircraft with no injuries and minor damage to aircraft. This aircraft does incorporates a safety switch on the main gear to keep from inadvertently retracting the gear on the ground. This switch will be inspected to see if this was a contributing factor for the gear retracting while the aircraft was still on the ground.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A flight instructor and student pilot experienced an inadvertent landing gear retraction during a touch-and-go landing. The aircraft settled onto the runway and slid to a stop with no reported injuries.
Narrative: While practicing crosswind landing touch and goes the student pilot on the fifth landing and after touchdown; inadvertently put the landing gear handle in the up position during the ground roll instead of retracting the flaps. The gear handle and flap handle are both located in front and down by the floor of the pilot and co-pilots seats. The approximate aircraft speed at this time was 30 to 40 KTS. The aircraft started to feel like we had a flat tire; then the student added power and when I noticed the student put the gear handle up instead of the flaps. I pulled power and the aircraft never got airborne. The aircraft slid to a stop on the side of the runway with the gear retracted. We exited the aircraft with no injuries and minor damage to aircraft. This aircraft does incorporates a safety switch on the main gear to keep from inadvertently retracting the gear on the ground. This switch will be inspected to see if this was a contributing factor for the gear retracting while the aircraft was still on the ground.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.