- Date
- June 13, 2024, 11:10 local (16:10 UTC)
- Place
- Eaglesnest, MS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2900HPiper PA-34-200T
- Defining event
- Landing: 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 - Jackson FSDO
- FAA report
- 20240613009439A
- Case key
- 194478
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 airplane’s 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 while on the downwind leg of the traffic pattern he did not extend the landing gear, and while on final approach, he did not check the landing gear position indicator lights. The pilot continued to land with the landing gear retracted which resulted in substantial damage to the lower fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2900H
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-7970342
- Built
- 1979
- Airframe hours
- 6,164
- Engines
- Continental TSIO-360-EB, 200 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental TSIO-360-EB, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 31, 2023
- Departed
- OMO · Dumas, AR
- Destination
- CKM · Clarksdale, MS
- Airport
- CKM · Fletcher Field, runway 18/36, 5,404 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Onboard weather, Heads up display, Electronic primary flight display
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
- 74
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 1, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 2,070 total · 962 in this make and model · 2,070 as pilot in command · 5.4 in the last 90 days · 2.2 in the last 30 days · 0.5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 84 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.01 inHg
- Observed at
- KCKM
- METAR
- KCKM 131615Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM 29/29 A3001 RMK A01
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 30, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.2 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.