- Date
- July 22, 2025, 16:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Lansing, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N737HNCessna R182
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA-FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250722010619A
- Case key
- 200642
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 due to his distraction of other traffic and failure to follow his landing procedures.
Findings · 5
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 during landing, he forgot to extend the landing gear and that he landed with the landing gear retracted. Subsequently, the airplane fuselage contacted the runway before it came to rest. He added that he was distracted by a helicopter in the traffic pattern. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the lower fuselage. The pilot stated the accident might have been prevented if he had followed his landing procedures.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N737HN
- Reported as
- Cessna R182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R18200829
- Built
- 1979
- Airframe hours
- 4,212
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-J3C512, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 5, 2024
- Airport
- IGO · Lansing, runway 18, 4,002 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS, Auto-pilot, ADS-B
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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 1, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 401 total · 129 in this make and model · 275 as pilot in command · 0 in the last 90 days · 0 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.08 inHg
- Observed at
- KIGQ, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KIGQ 222115Z AUTO 12009KT 10SM CLR 29/17 A3008 RMK AO2 T02920174=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 4, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.0 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.