- Date
- June 24, 2026, 11:33 local (15:33 UTC)
- Place
- Traverse City, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N96GBBeech 58
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 20, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20260624007789A
- Case key
- 203300
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 · 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 the initial approach, he was given vectors from air traffic control (ATC) that took him about 15 miles away from the airport. As he was vectored back toward the airport, ATC notified him that he was fifth in sequence to land and was asked to decrease airspeed. About 5 miles from the airport, ATC turned multiple airplanes in front of him, and he continued to maintain visual contact with each airplane. The spacing was tight with airplane in front of him and he continued to watch it as it slowly exited the runway. While on short final, he forgot to complete the before landing checklist, which resulted in him not extending the landing gear. The airplane landed on its belly and came to rest upright on the runway, which resulted in substantial damage to the bottom fuselage. The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N96GB
- Reported as
- Beech 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH-882
- Built
- 1978
- Airframe hours
- 8,657.5
- Engines
- Continental Motors IO-520-MBCCB, 280 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental Motors IO-520-MBCCB, 280 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Eagle Equity Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · May 10, 2026 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- KVPZ · Valparaiso, IN
- Destination
- KTVC · Traverse City, MI
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- TVC · Cherry Capital, runway 10/28, 7,016 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Satellite tracking device, Onboard weather, 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
- 80
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 13, 2026
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 12,000 total · 10,000 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 9,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.05 inHg
- Observed at
- KTVC
- METAR
- METAR KTVC 241453Z 00000KT 10SM OVC095 18/12 A3005 RMK AO2 SLP176 T01780117 58009
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 20, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.5 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.