- Date
- May 3, 2022, 10:50 local (14:50 UTC)
- Place
- San Juan, PR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N744LGShort Bros SD3-60
- 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
- 20220503002589A
- Case key
- 105046
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 flight crew’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
According to the operator, the flight crew was conducting one engine inoperative (OEI) training as part of a check ride. While conducting an OEI instrument landing system approach, the flight crew became task-saturated and “failed to complete the approach and final checklists.” The flight crew completed the landing to the runway with the landing gear fully retracted and the airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. The flight crew reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N744LG
- Reported as
- Short Bros SD3-60
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- SH3744
- Built
- 1988
- Airframe hours
- 29,357
- Engines
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67R, 1,424 hp, turbo propPratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67R, 1,424 hp, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Acc Integrated Services Inc
- Registered owner
- Acc Integrated Services Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · April 29, 2022
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- SJU · Luis Munoz Marin Intl, runway 08, 10,400 × 193 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Satellite tracking device, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Onboard weather
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
- 25
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 12, 2021
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 2,216 total · 950 in this make and model · 1,406 as pilot in command · 103 in the last 90 days · 27 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Check pilot
- Age
- 36
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 2, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 3,758 total · 2,014 in this make and model · 3,458 as pilot in command · 104 in the last 90 days · 45 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.10 inHg
- Observed at
- JSJ
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 20, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.4 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.