- Date
- July 23, 2021, 10:50 local (14:50 UTC)
- Place
- Clearwater, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4445TCostruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2006T
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: 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
- FAA report
- 20210723011649A
- Case key
- 103570
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 prior to landing. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor’s inadequate supervision to confirm the landing gear was extended.
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
The flight instructor reported that they were number two to land and the student, a private pilot, began to configure the airplane for landing. The instructor became distracted with a departing airplane and another airplane on short final and as a result, the landing gear was never confirmed to be extended prior to touch down and they landed with the gear retracted, which resulted in substantial damage to the lower fuselage. The operator reported there were no mechanical deficiencies that contributed to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4445T
- Reported as
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2006T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 273/US
- Built
- 2019
- Airframe hours
- 562.4
- Engines
- Rotaqx 912S3, 100 hp, reciprocatingRotaqx 912S3, 100 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Tampa Bay Aviation
- Registered owner
- Silver Streak Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 1, 2021
- Departed
- PIE · Clearwater, FL
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- CLW · Clearwater Air Park, runway 16/34, 4,108 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Auto-pilot
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
- 35
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Private, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 30, 2001
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 3,021 total · 174 in this make and model · 2,919 as pilot in command · 64 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 37
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 514.8 total · 3.2 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,400 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.06 inHg
- Observed at
- CLW
- METAR
- ETAR KCLW 021455Z AUTO 30004KT 10SM BKN024 BKN028 BKN047 28/24 A3006
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 29, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.3 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.