# Incident 20180823012209I: Cessna 172RG, Fishers, IN, August 23, 2018

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 23, 2018, 15:50 local time
- Place: Fishers, IN
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 39.9556° N, 86.0139° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Fishers, IN, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=39.9556&lon=-86.0139&mi=10
- Aircraft: N9542B, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N9542B) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 172RG (registry code 2072438, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172rg) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming I0360 SER A&C (registry code 41511, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-i0360-ser-a-c) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172RG
- Reported engine: LYCOMING I0360 SER A&C
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 422 total, 44 in this make and model, 1 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20180823012209I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

ON AUGUST 23, 2018, AT APPROXIMATELY 1550 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME, A CESSNA 172RG, N9542B LANDED GEAR UP ON RUNWAY 15 AT THE INDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN AIRPORT (KUMP), INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.  THE AIRCRAFT SUBSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE.  THERE WAS SKIN ABRAISION TO THE LOWER FUSELAGE SKIN, DAMAGE TO THE LOWER ANTENNAS, AND THE LOWER END OF THE EXHAUST STACK.  THE ENGINE EXPERIENCED SUDDEN STOPPAGE AND BOTH PROPELLER TIPS WERE CURLED FROM CONTACT WITH THE RUNWAY.  THE PILOT WAS UNINJURED DURING THE INCIDENT.  THE AIRCRAFT IS REGISTERED TO TOM WOOD AVIATION AND WAS BEING OPERATED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF 14 CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS (CFR) PART 91 AS A GENERAL AVIATION FLIGHT.  THE WEATHER AT THE TIME OF THE INCCIDENT WAS VISUAL METEROLOGICAL CONDITIONS (VMC).

THE PILOT STATED HE FLEW AN EXTENDED DOWNWIND TO ALLOW A JET TO LAND ON THE OPPOSITE END OF RUNWAY 15.  THE PILOT?S NORMAL ROUTINE IS PERFORMING THE LANDING CHECKLIST AND "GUMP" CHECK AT THE MIDFIELD DOWNWIND POSITION. HE DELAYED THE LANDING CHECKLIST AND "GUMP" CHECK UNTIL THE BASE LEG OF THE TRAFFIC PATTERN WHILE LOOKING FOR THE LANDING JET ON THE OPPOSING RUNWAY.  HE THOUGHT HE HAD COMPLETED THE LANDING CHECKLIST AND CONTINUED HIS LANDING TO RUNWAY 15. HE DID NOT REALIZE THE LANDING GEAR WAS NOT DOWN UNTIL THE MOMENT THE AIRCRAFT TOUCHED THE RUNWAY.

## Other reports on N9542B (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 20070902826679I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20070902826679I), Sep 2, 2007: Cessna 172RG (N9542B), Shelbyville, IN, Minor damage. (-23) After completing approximately one hour of airwork, with the landing gear warning horn sounding almost continuously, the pilot in command allowed himself…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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