- Date
- June 2, 2014, 23:50 local (Jun 3, 2014, 03:50 UTC)
- Place
- Dayton, TN
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N120SCSwearingen SA 226AT
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report October 27, 2014
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- FAA report
- 20140602007429A
- Case key
- 89348
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear during the approach, which resulted in a gear-up landing.
Findings · 4
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
Approximately five miles from the destination airport, the pilot conducted the before landing checklist and thought he had extended the landing gear. He continued the landing approach, and the airplane touched down with the landing gear retracted, resulting in substantial damage to the wing spar. The pilot did not report any mechanical anomalies that would have precluded normal operation prior to the accident.
Factual narrative
Approximately five miles from the destination airport, the pilot conducted the before landing checklist and thought he had extended the landing gear. He continued the landing approach, and the airplane touched down with the landing gear retracted, resulting in substantial damage to the wing spar. The pilot did not report any mechanical anomalies that would have precluded normal operation prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N120SC
- Reported as
- Swearingen SA 226AT (AT)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AT067
- Built
- 1978
- Airframe hours
- 25,903
- Engines
- Honeywell TPE-331-10UA, 1,000 horsepower, turbo propHoneywell TPE-331-10UA, 1,000 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- McNeely Charter Service
- Registered owner
- Mcneely Charter Service Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 19, 2014
- Departed
- LRD · Laredo, TX
- Destination
- 2A0 · Dayton, TN
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 2A0 · Mark Anton Airport, runway 3, 5,001 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- 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
- 47
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 11, 2014
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 15,000 total · 3,800 in this make and model · 10,500 as pilot in command · 150 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.03 inHg
- Observed at
- 2A0
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 20, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 8.2 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.
Other investigations on N120SC · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.