<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1537590, March 2018

Yak 52 passenger reported the flying pilot mistakenly raised the landing gear during a go-around; damaging the prop and undercarriage.

Attributes
ACN	1537590
Time
Date	201803
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Military Trainer
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Flight Engineer Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 74 Flight Crew Total 10578 Flight Crew Type 503
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Gear Up Landing

Narrative:

While riding as a passenger in a yak 52 aircraft piloted by another pilot who represented himself as qualified in this particular aircraft; as he completed a rough VFR landing and decided to go around; the pilot mistakenly raised the landing gear while the aircraft settled onto the runway causing damage to the propeller and underside of the aircraft. There were no injuries and the aircraft was towed to its hangar for repair evaluation.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Yak 52 passenger reported the flying pilot mistakenly raised the landing gear during a go-around; damaging the prop and undercarriage.

Narrative: While riding as a passenger in a Yak 52 aircraft piloted by another pilot who represented himself as qualified in this particular aircraft; as he completed a rough VFR landing and decided to go around; the pilot mistakenly raised the landing gear while the aircraft settled onto the runway causing damage to the propeller and underside of the aircraft. There were no injuries and the aircraft was towed to its hangar for repair evaluation.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.