- Date
- March 4, 1983, 10:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Wasilla, AK
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1840QCessna 177RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19830304013589I
- Case key
- 4081
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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.
Gear not extended
Checklist - not usedCause
Procedures/directives - not followedCause
Analysis
The pilot failed to extend the landing gear & the acft landed unintentional gear up.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1840Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 177RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 177RG0240
- Airframe hours
- 3,420
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Michael J. Osolnik
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 1, 1982 · 90 hours before
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- Z16 · Wasilla, runway 5, 2,100 × 90 ft, gravel
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
- 39
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,988 total · 300 in this make and model · 3,811 as pilot in command · 179 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 5 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 19 °F
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 N1840Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.