N777TY

After takeoff bound for Teterboro on a ferry flight, pilots encountered problem to raise undercarriage. They elected to return to West Palm Beach but on short final, the aircraft hit violently the runway surface and the right landing gear punctured the right wing and the aircraft came to rest on runway. It appears that an engineer made a control of the Maintenance Data Acquisition Unit and disengaged the weight-on-wheel system. Before release the aircraft, the engineer forgot to reengage the WOW system.

Accident description

Date & Time		14FEB2002 at 0649LT
Type of Aircraft		Gulfstream GV
Operator		BB Five
Registration		N777TY
Location		West Palm Beach

Flight number
Schedule		West Palm Bech - Teterboro

Construction number		508
Year of manufacture		1996

Crew on board		2
Pax on board		0
Crew fatalities		0
Pax fatalities		0
Other fatalities		0
Total fatalities		0

Circumstances
		After takeoff bound for Teterboro on a ferry flight, pilots encountered problem to raise undercarriage. They elected to return to West Palm Beach but on short final, the aircraft hit violently the runway surface and the right landing gear punctured the right wing and the aircraft came to rest on runway. It appears that an engineer made a control of the Maintenance Data Acquisition Unit and disengaged the weight-on-wheel system. Before release the aircraft, the engineer forgot to reengage the WOW system.