- Date
- February 19, 2023, 18:10 local (Feb 20, 2023, 00:10 UTC)
- Place
- Grand Prairie, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4210DBeech G35
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 106764
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to extend the landing gear before landing.
Findings · 3
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 forgot to put down the landing gear and that he landed with the gear retracted. The airplane slid off the runway before it came to a rest. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the lower fuselage. The pilot reported there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4210D
- Reported as
- Beech G35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-4415
- Built
- 1956
- Airframe hours
- 6,615
- Engine
- Continental E-225-8, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 27, 2021 · 4.6 hours before
- Departed
- F41 · Ennis, TX
- Destination
- GPM · Grand Prairie, TX
- Airport
- GPM · Grand Prairie Municipal, runway 18, 4,001 × 75 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, 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
- 0
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 5, 2021
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 1,044.5 total · 6.7 in this make and model · 943.8 as pilot in command · 1.4 in the last 90 days · 1.4 in the last 30 days · 1.4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 190° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.07 inHg
- Observed at
- KGPM, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KGPM 192350Z 19008KT 10SM SKC 21/05 A3007
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 27, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.0 MB in all.