- Date
- August 30, 2001, 17:50 local (Aug 31, 2001, 01:50 UTC)
- Place
- Fairbanks, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N45367Cessna 177RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 20, 2002
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA-AL-FAI FSDO 01
- FAA report
- 20010830024739A
- Case key
- 53174
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The private certificated pilot was conducting several touch and go landings. On the last landing, the pilot failed to lower the landing gear, and the airplane touched down on the belly. A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed damage to an area of fuselage about 3 1/2 feet wide, and 4 feet long.
Factual narrative
On August 30, 2001, about 1750 Alaska daylight time, a wheel-equipped Cessna 177RG airplane, N45367, sustained substantial damage during a gear-up landing at the Fairbanks International Airport, Fairbanks, Alaska. The airplane was being operated as a visual flight rules (VFR) local area personal flight when the accident occurred. The airplane was operated by the pilot. The private certificated pilot, the sole occupant, was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed.
During a telephone conversation with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator-in-charge (IIC) on August 30, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspector, Fairbanks Flight Standards District Office (FSDO), reported that the pilot was conducting several touch and go landings to runway 1R at Fairbanks. The inspector said that on the last landing, the pilot failed to lower the landing gear, and the airplane touched down on the belly. A postaccident examination of the airplane by the FAA revealed damage to an area of fuselage about 3 1/2 feet wide, and 4 feet long.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N45367
- Reported as
- Cessna 177RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 177RG1113
- Airframe hours
- 1,938
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Benjamin J. Walden
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 2, 2001
- Departed
- PAFA · Fairbanks, AK
- Airport
- PAFA · Fairbanks International, runway 1R, 3,190 × 60 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 73
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Last flight review
- October 2, 2000
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,800 total · 800 in this make and model · 1,660 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 18,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.21 inHg
- Observed at
- PAFA
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N45367 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.