- Date
- June 14, 2025, 12:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Modesto, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4909TCessna TR182
- 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
- 20250614007879I
- Case key
- 200331
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to properly configure the airplane for landing.
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 pilot reported that he failed to extend the landing gear prior to landing, resulting in a gear up landing. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no pre-accident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4909T
- Reported as
- Cessna TR182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R18201787
- Built
- 1981
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- RHV · San Jose, CA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- MOD · Modesto, runway 28R, 5,904 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic primary flight display
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
- 69
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 6, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 654 total · 475 in this make and model · 540 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 6 knots, gusting 4
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 29.93 inHg
- METAR
- SA 14/06/2025 19:53-> METAR KMOD 141953Z 32005KT 10SM CLR 28/04 A2993 RMK AO2 SLP134 T02780044=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 11, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.0 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.