- Date
- June 23, 2025, 22:00 local (Jun 24, 2025, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- East Hampton, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N215MBRaytheon G58
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report April 30, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- Case key
- 200505
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 before landing due to his distraction.
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 pilot reported that while in the airport traffic pattern, he initially extended the landing gear. He was subsequently instructed to extend his downwind leg to follow landing traffic, at which point he retracted the landing gear. He forgot to re-extend the landing gear before touchdown, and the airplane came to rest on the runway. The pilot stated that he was distracted by the extended downwind, multiple landing gear configuration changes, and the instruction to follow traffic. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the lower fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N215MB
- Reported as
- Raytheon G58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH-2133
- Airframe hours
- 2,491
- Engines
- Continental IO-550-C, 300 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental IO-550-C, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Doupe Services, LLC, doing business as Curtis Air Taxi
- Registered owner
- Jt1 LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 18, 2024 · 61 hours before
- Departed
- TEB · Teterboro, NJ
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- JPX · East Hampton Town, runway 28, 4,255 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system, 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 58
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 30, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 10,748 total · 8,058 in this make and model · 10,736 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 230° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 3006.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HTO
- METAR
- METAR KJPX 240155Z AUTO 23007KT 10SM CLR 25/20 A3006
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 30, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 7.4 MB in all.