# NTSB investigations, 1985: Gear not extended

NTSB aviation accident and incident investigations since 1962: the probable cause, findings, aircraft, crew, weather and docket of each, linked to the FAA registry and the FAA’s own reports.

## Latest cases

- [NTSB MIA86IA029](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA86IA029.md): Piper PA-44-180 · Miami, FL · Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report · Nov 9, 1985 · N2103K · Minor damage
  > The plt stated that he was on a practice instrument apch & after arriving at minimums, declared a missed apch, retracted his landing gear & flaps but decided to land and continued his apch & inadvertently landed gear up.
- [NTSB MIA86IA017](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA86IA017.md): Cessna 402C · Miami, FL · Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report · Oct 25, 1985 · N67876 · Minor damage
  > The plt stated that he made a normal apch to rwy 12 buy on landing rollout as the nose of the acft touched down the nose gear ass'y folded & the acft slid to a stop, post crash examination of the acft revealed that the green light for the nose gear remained…
- [NTSB MIA86LA003](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA86LA003.md): Cessna 414 · Sarasota, FL · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Oct 4, 1985 · N24ET · Substantial damage
  > The plt stated that his right main gear would not extend, so he circled the arpt for about 1/2 hour to burn off excess fuel, retracted the remaining gear & intentionally landed gear up on rwy 32. Examination of the right main landing it to extend beyond it's…
- [NTSB MIA85LA258](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA85LA258.md): Cessna 177RG · Ormond Beach, FL · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Sep 17, 1985 · N52637 · Substantial damage
  > The plt stated that he forgot to extend the landing gear prior to touchdown while on a test flight after maintainence work was performed on the acft.
- [NTSB LAX85LA381](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX85LA381.md): Cessna 402A · San Jose, CA · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Sep 4, 1985 · N4597Q · Substantial damage
  > The aircraft landed gear up. The pilot reported no malfunction and said he forget to lower the landing gear.
- [NTSB MIA85IA182](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA85IA182.md): Piper Aztec PA-23-250 · Vero Beach, FL · Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report · May 31, 1985 · N63845 · Minor damage
  > While in the traffic pattern, the cfi's attention was diverted as he attempted to assist ATC with some radio frequency info. While being so distracted, he permitted the student to land the acft with the gear up.
- [NTSB MIA85IA156](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA85IA156.md): Rockwell AC-500 · Palm Beach, FL · Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report · Apr 24, 1985 · N3836C · Minor damage
  > On final apch, the acft was advised twice by the tower to go around because his landing gear was not extended, the acft did not respond & landed gear up on rwy 13. Examination of the landing gear system after the occurrence revealed the warning horn was…
- [NTSB ATL85LA092](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL85LA092.md): Beech 95-C55 · Charleston, SC · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Feb 9, 1985 · N211DS · Substantial damage
  > Plt making practice coupled ILS apch in VMC. Intercepted localizer outside the outer marker. Held the gear,intending to lower them at om. Continued inbd to dh where he resumed manual control. Observed gear warning lt and heard aural gear warning but failed to…

## The whole list in SQL

Runs in DuckDB 1.2 or later on the release's Parquet files over HTTPS:

```sql
SELECT c."ntsbNumber", c."eventDate", c."eventType", c."eventCity", c."eventStateOrRegion", a.n_number, a."aircraftMake", a."aircraftModel", c."highestInjuryLevel", c."totalFatal", c."completionStatus", c.report_url
FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_case_detail.parquet' c LEFT JOIN 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_aircrafts.parquet' a ON a.case_mkey = c."mKey" AND a.position = 1
WHERE year(c."eventDate") = 1985
  AND c."mKey" IN (SELECT o.case_mkey FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_occurrences.parquet' o WHERE o."occurrenceNumber" = 1 AND o."occurrenceCode" = 196)
ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb?occurrence=196&year=1985

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