- Date
- June 25, 2021, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Jennings, LA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9038NAero Commander 500 S
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: 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
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20210625008199A
- Case key
- 103394
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 extend the landing gear before 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 as he was landing from a visual approach at his destination airport, he realized he had failed to extend the landing gear and the airplane landed with the landing gear retracted. The airplane skidded down the runway, departed the runway surface and hit a berm and fence before it came to rest. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and both wings. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. After the accident, the pilot stated that despite hours of operation, always use a paper or electronic written checklist.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9038N
- Reported as
- Aero Commander 500 S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3050
- Built
- 1969
- Airframe hours
- 8,765
- Engines
- Lycoming IO-540-1B5, 300 horsepower, reciprocatingLycoming IO-540-1B5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ash Industries Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 9, 2020
- Departed
- EET · Alabaster, AL
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 3R7 · Jennings Muni, runway 26, 5,002 × 75 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Onboard weather, Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system
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
- 56
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 6, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 1,356 total · 1,356 in this make and model · 1,822 as pilot in command · 45 in the last 90 days · 28 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 82 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.98 inHg
- Observed at
- K3R7
- METAR
- K3R7 252055Z AUTO 14007KT 10SM VCTS BKN035 BKN049 29/28 A2998 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT W THRU N T02850280
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 16, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.9 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.