- Date
- October 16, 2024, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Shreveport, LA · runway
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4203ABeech 58
- 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 Flight Standards
- FAA report
- 20241016019359A
- Case key
- 195336
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 inadvertent failure to lower the landing gear before touching down.
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 pilot reported that the flight was routine until landing, when for some reason he neglected to lower the landing gear. The airplane landed on the runway wheels up and sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot stated there were no mechanical failures or malfunctions associated with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. He added that minimizing distractions and complacency might have prevented the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4203A
- Reported as
- Beech 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH-22
- Built
- 1970
- Airframe hours
- 5,338
- Engines
- Continental IO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental IO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91
- Operator
- Gulf States Air Inc, doing business as N/A
- Registered owner
- Gulf States Air Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 17, 2024 · 124 hours before
- Departed
- NEW · New Orleans, LA
- Destination
- DTN · Shreveport, LA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- DTN · Shreveport Downtown, runway 5, 4,198 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Handheld GPS, 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
- 64
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 13,000 total · 2,100 in this make and model · 12,000 as pilot in command · 37 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 9 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.32 inHg
- Observed at
- KDTN
- METAR
- SPECI KDTN 162146Z 07009G15KT 10SM CLR 21/M02 A3032
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 19, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 7.4 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.