- Date
- June 24, 2026, 13:45 local (18:45 UTC)
- Place
- Baton Rouge, LA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6164CBeech C24R
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 17, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20260624007729A
- Case key
- 203250
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 after the airplane departed the runway, the pilot’s door opened. The pilot then remained in the traffic pattern and returned to land on the runway with the landing gear retracted. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the lower fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or anomalies with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6164C
- Reported as
- Beech C24R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MC-769
- Built
- 1981
- Airframe hours
- 4,215
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- N6164c LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 24, 2026
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- BTR · Baton Rouge Metro, Ryan Fld, runway 13/31, 7,005 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, ADS-B, 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
- 78
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 19, 2026
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,518 total · 1,212 in this make and model · 1,219 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.07 inHg
- Observed at
- KBTR
- METAR
- METAR KBTR 241853Z 24007KT 10SM BKN015 BKN019 32/24 A3007 RMK AO2 SLP182 T03220239
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 17, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.8 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.