- Date
- August 19, 2022, 17:01 local (21:01 UTC)
- Place
- Hollywood, MD
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7154UMooney M20E
- 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
- FAA report
- 20220819014809A
- Case key
- 105906
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear before 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
According to the pilot, while entering the airport’s traffic pattern to land on runway 11, he started the before landing checklist procedure but did not lower the landing gear because the airspeed was too fast. Then, on the final leg of the traffic pattern, he was focusing on maintaining a slip in the crosswind and he did not extend the landing gear. The airplane touched down with the landing gear retracted, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. Around the time of the accident, the wind was reported from 140° at 9 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7154U
- Reported as
- Mooney M20E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 393
- Built
- 1964
- Airframe hours
- 4,626
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Walls Of Time Inc
- Registered owner
- Walls Of Time Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 14, 2021
- Departed
- W48 · Essex, MD
- Destination
- IXA · Halifax, NC
- Airport
- 2W6 · St Mary's County, runway 11, 4,150 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, 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
- 62
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 19, 2022
- Seat
- None
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 746 total · 435.8 in this make and model · 628 as pilot in command · 35.8 in the last 90 days · 5.6 in the last 30 days · 0.5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 28,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.07 inHg
- Turbulence
- Light
- Observed at
- NHK, 6 nm away
- METAR
- KNHK 192052Z 14009KT 10SM FEW048 FEW120 BKN280 30/19 A3007 RMK AO2 SLP184 T03000189 58006
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 13, 2022, 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.