- Date
- June 11, 2025, 08:52 local (18:52 UTC)
- Place
- Honolulu, HI
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N221LMShort Bros SD3-60
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20250611008759A
- Case key
- 200316
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Probable cause
The pilots’ failure to extend the landing gear prior to landing. Contributing to the accident was the pilots’ failure to complete the Before Landing checklist.
Findings · 4
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The first officer, seated in the left seat for the purpose of nose wheel steering familiarization, and the captain, seated in the right seat, reported that the purpose of the flight was to reposition the airplane from Kona, Hawaii to Honolulu, Hawaii. The first officer reported that, while on approach to Honolulu, he called for flaps and gear down. Simultaneously, Honolulu tower requested them to, “slow down to slowest practical speed”. The pilots became distracted while initiating the reduction in airspeed and forgot to monitor the status of the landing gear. The captain reported that he did not verify that the gear was down. The airplane was equipped with tricycle landing gear featuring a fully retractable nose gear and partially retractable main gear. The pilots reported hearing the gear warning horn during the flare, at which time they glanced in and confirmed that the landing gear was retracted. The airplane landed gear up and the forward bottom section of the fuselage contacted the runway surface, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilots reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. A postaccident operational check of the airplane’s landing gear revealed no anomalies.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N221LM
- Reported as
- Short Bros SD3-60
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- SH3722
- Built
- 1987
- Airframe hours
- 36,782.3
- Engines
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A67R, 1,424 horsepower, turbo propPratt & Whitney PT6A67R, 1,424 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 135
- Operator
- Trans Executive Airlines of Hawaii Inc, doing business as TransAir
- Registered owner
- Trans Executive Airlines of Hawaii Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- AAIP · June 4, 2025 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- KOA · Kona, HI
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- HNL · Daniel K Inouye International Airport, runway 4R, 8,950 × 150 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Onboard weather
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 75
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 6, 2025
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 34,000 total · 4,471 in this make and model · 31,700 as pilot in command · 163 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Co-pilot
- Age
- 27
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 21, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,130 total · 830 in this make and model · 221 as pilot in command · 103 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.14 inHg
- Observed at
- PHNL, 1 nm away
- METAR
- PHNL 111853Z 05010KT 10SM FEW025 SCT050 27/20 A3014 RMK AO2 SLP206 T02720200 $
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 5, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 7.3 MB in all.
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 N221LM · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.