- Date
- September 6, 2025, 14:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Dallas, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N560RTCessna 560
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 12, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA-FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250906014709A
- Case key
- 200962
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.
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, during an instrument approach, he forgot to extend the landing gear and that he landed with the landing gear retracted. Subsequently, the airplane slid on the runway before it came to rest. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the lower fuselage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N560RT
- Reported as
- Cessna 560
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 5600125
- Built
- 1991
- Airframe hours
- 7,427.9
- Engines
- Pratt & Whitney JT15D-5A, 2,900 lbs thrust, turbo fanPratt & Whitney JT15D-5A, 2,900 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Sav Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Unknown · March 4, 2025
- Departed
- DWH · Houston, TX
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- RBD · Dallas Executive, runway 31, 7,130 × 100 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Data recorder, Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Electronic multifunction display, Onboard weather, 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
- 44
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 23, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 5,500 total · 1,200 in this make and model · 55 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.13 inHg
- Observed at
- KRBD
- METAR
- KRBD 061853Z 30004KT 10SM FEW013 OVC070 19/16 A3013 RMK AO2 RAB1758E08 SLP196 P0000 T01940161=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 12, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.1 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.