- Date
- September 25, 2022, 18:19 local (22:19 UTC)
- Place
- Richmond, KY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N711TLPiper PA60
- 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
- 20220925017249A
- Case key
- 106210
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.
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
The pilot of the multiengine airplane reported that he had completed six touch-and-go landings uneventfully. During approach for the seventh landing, he was distracted by a low fuel caution light illuminating in the cockpit, and other traffic in the area. The pilot forgot to extend the landing gear and the airplane landed on the runway with the landing gear retracted. The airplane came to rest upright on the runway and postaccident examination of it revealed substantial damage to the fuselage stringers. The pilot further reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions with the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N711TL
- Reported as
- Piper PA60 (700P)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 608423017
- Built
- 1984
- Airframe hours
- 3,036
- Engines
- Lycoming TIO-540, 350 horsepower, reciprocatingLycoming LTIO-540, 350 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 12, 2021
- Airport
- RGA · Central Kentucky Regional, runway 36, 5,001 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Onboard weather, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic flight bag or handheld device
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
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Multi-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 22, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,025 total · 428 in this make and model · 57 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 17 knots, gusting 23
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.83 inHg
- Observed at
- KRGA
- METAR
- METAR KRGA 252220Z AUTO 28017G23KT 10SM CLR 24/11 A2983
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 11, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.8 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.