Cozy Mark IV, N85TT: Incident occurred December 08, 2017 at Paine Field (KPAE), Everett, Snohomish County, Washington

Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office;  Seattle, Washington

Aircraft on landing. Nose gear not fully extended

http://registry.faa.gov/N85TT 

Date: 08-DEC-17
Time: 23:34:00Z
Regis#: N85TT
Aircraft Make: EXPERIMENTAL
Aircraft Model: COZY MARK IV
Event Type: INCIDENT
Highest Injury: NONE
Aircraft Missing: No
Damage: UNKNOWN
Activity: UNKNOWN
Flight Phase: LANDING (LDG)
City: EVERETT
State: WASHINGTON 

Paine Field crews were extra busy last week, with two plane crashes just days apart, and a landing incident involving an experimental plane.

The first crash occurred last Sunday, Dec. 3, when a small Cessna 152 aircraft crashed just seconds after taking off.

The plane was being flown by a certified instructor and a student pilot, and ended up crashing on Commando Road after crossing over 112th Street Southwest.

A similar incident occurred just days later on Friday, Dec. 8, when another Cessna aircraft failed to gain altitude while performing what Paine Field’s airport director Arif Ghouse called “touch and go” landings around 3 p.m.

“Basically, they would take off, come around to land and, instead of completely landing, they would touch the pavement and take back off,” Ghouse said. “During their landing phase on the smaller runway, once they touched down they couldn’t gain altitude for some reason and couldn’t lift off the runway.

“Once they realized that they couldn’t take off, they tried to veer into a grassy area near the runway. Once they got the plane to the grassy area, the plane kept going, and their momentum carried them through the security fence and onto the roadway.”

Ghouse said they don’t know the exact cause of the plane’s failure to launch, but that the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the cause of the problems.

Less than an hour after the crash, an experimental plane had an issue with its landing gear and had a hard landing.

“Calling it a crash is a little drastic,” Ghouse said. “The airplane landed on the main runway without having its landing gear down. There was no damage to the runway, and that issue was resolved pretty quickly.”

Ghouse said the FAA and NTSB are investigating the cause of the landing gear issue as well.

He said the first crash on Friday caused the roadway leading to Paine Field on 112th to be closed for a few hours, and the small runway was closed for even longer as a result of the crash.

“The smaller runway was closed until about 3 a.m. on Saturday,” Ghouse said. “I left around 7 p.m. on Friday, and they were starting to clear out the roadway and that opened up a little bit after I left.”

This all comes just months after a Cessna aircraft from Paine Field crashed on Harbour Pointe Boulevard in May. Footage from a dashboard camera on one of the nearby vehicles captured the plane crashing through power lines and causing two large fireballs.

In the three cases last week, just like in May, no pilots, passengers or pedestrians were injured.

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