- Date
- June 25, 2024, 10:53 local (14:53 UTC)
- Place
- Medina, OH · On K1G5 Airport
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N182GZCessna R182
- 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
- 20240625008719A
- Case key
- 194589
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 and the flight instructor’s lack of remedial action, which resulted in a landing with the landing gear not correctly configured.
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
According to the pilot, he had just purchased the airplane which was equipped with retractable landing gear. He had hired a flight instructor to deliver the airplane to his home airport and paid the flight instructor to stay an extra day to fly with him, familiarize him with the airplane, and give him a flight review, as the flight instructor had previously given him a flight review in another airplane he had once owned. According to the flight instructor, all had gone well until they came in for the last landing. The flight instructor had noticed that the landing gear was not down, but kept thinking the pilot was going to put it down, and thought the pilot was reaching over to lower the landing gear but it was too late. The airplane contacted the runway with the landing gear retracted and its fuselage was substantially damaged. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N182GZ
- Reported as
- Cessna R182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R18200195
- Built
- 1978
- Airframe hours
- 6,569.2
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-J3C-5D, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 15, 2024 · 12.3 hours before
- Departed
- 1G5 · Medina, OH
- Airport
- 1G5 · Medina Muni, runway 19, 2,868 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 70
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Private, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 20, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,837 total · 50 in this make and model · 1,650 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 67
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Remote
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 26, 2024
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 7,820 total · 160 in this make and model · 25 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 12 knots, gusting 19
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.94 inHg
- Observed at
- KAKR, 15 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KAKR 251454Z AUTO 21012G19KT 10SM CLR 25/15 A2994 RMK AO2 SLP131 T02500150 55012=
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.