20230705009539I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Textron 208B · Elizabethtown, NC · July 5, 2023

Date
July 5, 2023 · 11:20 local
Place
Elizabethtown, NC
Airport
Curtis L Brown Jr Field
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N18NM
Reported as
Textron 208B
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-140
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Commercial pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
1,305 total83 in this make and model83 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry 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.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

The pilot failed to put the gear handle to the down position during inital prelanding checklist and landing checklist on final approach. First time flying without a copilot, no one to double check checklist items were completed.

As the FAA filed it

THE PILOT FAILED TO PUT THE GEAR HANDLE TO THE DOWN POSITION DURING INITAL PRELANDING CHECKLIST AND LANDING CHECKLIST ON FINAL APPROACH. FIRST TIME FLYING WITHOUT A COPILOT, NO ONE TO DOUBLE CHECK CHECKLIST ITEMS WERE COMPLETED.