ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 191120
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| Date: | Friday 24 March 2000 |
| Time: | 10:19 LT |
| Type: | Piper PA-31T-1040 Cheyenne |
| Owner/operator: | Airwork (NZ) Ltd |
| Registration: | ZK-FPL |
| MSN: | 31T-8475001 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 11 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Taupo Airport, Taupo -
 New Zealand
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Palmerston North Airport (PMR/NZPM) |
| Taupo Aerodrome (TUO/NZAP) | |
| Investigating agency: | TAIC |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On Friday 24 March 2000 at 1019 hours, ZK-FPL, a Piper PA31T3-T1040, landed on runway 18 at Taupo Aerodrome with its undercarriage retracted. The 10 passengers and the pilot on board the aircraft were not injured.
The pilot had elected to delay lowering the undercarriage because of parachutists landing at the aerodrome, so he passed over that checklist item during his before-landing checks. He subsequently became preoccupied with the parachutists and did not remember to return to the outstanding checklist action of lowering the undercarriage. The aircraft undercarriage unsafe warning system did not give sufficient warning to alert the pilot in time for him to recover the situation. The pilot's omission is an example of an unintended act that can occur when conscious attention is diverted elsewhere. Defences should be in place to prevent such omissions resulting in accidents.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. https://taic.org.nz/inquiries?SkinSrc=[G]skins%2ftaicAviation%2fskin_aviation
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Nov-2016 20:14 | harro | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Aug-2017 16:31 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Damage] |
| 06-Aug-2017 16:34 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 17-Sep-2017 00:46 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage] |
| 07-Aug-2020 04:20 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 25-Jan-2022 06:46 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type, Location] |
| 02-Feb-2022 19:52 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type] |
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