- Date
- September 27, 2022, 15:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- McGregor, TX
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N409STCessna 550
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear collapse
- 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
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20220927021499A
- Case key
- 106010
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 flight crew’s failure to ensure the landing gear was down which resulted in a gear up landing and subsequent runway excursion.
Findings · 2
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 captain reported that the airplane was on a stabilized approach when, just before the airplane touched down, he heard a horn activate. He did not realize that the landing gear was not fully down until the nose landing gear touched down and he heard metal grinding. The airplane veered off the right side of the runway and came to rest about 20 ft from the edge. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the bottom of the fuselage. The captain’s recollection of the landing gear selection was “fuzzy” following the accident. A postaccident functional test of the landing gear system showed normal extension and retraction. No other preaccident failures or malfunctions were noted with the airplane or systems that would have precluded normal operations. The lack of anomalies indicated that the flight crew failed to ensure the landing gear was down before landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N409ST
- Reported as
- Cessna 550
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 550-0559
- Built
- 1987
- Airframe hours
- 9,012.7
- Engines
- Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-4, 2,500 lbs thrust, turbo fanPratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-4, 2,500 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · June 10, 2022
- Departed
- ADS · Addison, TX
- Destination
- PWG · McGregor, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- PWG · McGregor Executive Airport, runway 17, 5,501 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Onboard weather, Auto-pilot, Angle of attack indicator, 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 35
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 10, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 4,000 total · 380 in this make and model · 3,300 as pilot in command · 140 in the last 90 days · 44 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Co-pilot
- Age
- 23
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 23, 2021
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 788 total · 188 in this make and model · 487 as pilot in command · 130 in the last 90 days · 42 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 3 knots, gusting 14
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- KPWG, 5 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KPWG 271956Z AUTO VRB04G14KT 10SM CLR 32/03 A3012
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 20, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.2 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.