- Date
- March 22, 2021, 16:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Patuxent River, MD
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2QDCessna T337G
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20210322009179A
- Case key
- 103114
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 during approach, which resulted in a gear up landing.
Findings · 2
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
At the conclusion of the flight the pilot approached the runway for landing, and it wasn’t until the airplane touched down on the runway that he realized the landing gear was retracted. The airplane’s fuselage was substantially damaged. A post-accident test of the airplane’s landing gear system revealed that the landing position gear warning horn, landing gear position indicator lights, and landing gear operated without anomalies.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2QD
- Reported as
- Cessna T337G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- P3370277
- Built
- 1977
- Airframe hours
- 3,396.8
- Engines
- Continental TSIO-360CB, 225 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental TSIO-360C, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Spectraq
- Registered owner
- Spectraq
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 25, 2021
- Departed
- 2W6 · Leonardtown, MD
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- NHK · Patuxent River Nas/Trapnell Fld, runway 06/24, 11,799 × 200 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Unknown
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 53
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 20, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,971 total · 411 in this make and model · 58 in the last 90 days · 58 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Flight engineer
- Seat
- Right
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.26 inHg
- Observed at
- NHK, 1 nm away
- METAR
- SPECI KNHK 222013Z 03008KT 10SM FEW050 18/07 A3026 RMK AO2 T01780067 $=
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 10, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 21.3 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.