- Date
- November 30, 1989, 11:50 local (16:50 UTC)
- Place
- Covington, KY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N171LECessna 550
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 16, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891130052039A
- Case key
- 8187
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
Failure of the pilot-in-command (PIC) to extend the landing gear and inadequate monitoring by the check pilot, which resulted in a wheels-up landing.
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
Gear extension - not performedCause
Monitoring - inadequateCause
Wheels up landing - inadvertentCause
Aircraft
- Registration
- N171LE
- Reported as
- Cessna 550
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 325
- Airframe hours
- 5,058
- Engine
- P&W JT15D-4, 2,500 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- L.P. Enright, doing business as Enterprise Airlines
- Registered owner
- Dr. L. P. Enright
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · November 26, 1989 · 55 hours before
- Departed
- CVG · Cincinnati, OH
- Destination
- CVG · Cincinnati, OH
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- CVG · Greater Cincinnati, runway 18, 9,501 × 150 ft, concrete
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 38
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 9,509 total · 560 in this make and model · 9,110 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CVG
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.