- Date
- August 18, 2025, 13:21 UTC
- Place
- Portsmouth, NH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N999XXScoda Aeronautica Ltda Super Petrel LS
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 20, 2025
- 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
- 200866
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to extend the airplane’s 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
The pilot stated that he was attempting to land on a hard surface runway in his amphibious airplane when he got distracted and failed to use the before landing checklist and extend the landing gear. The pilot subsequently landed on the hull resulting in substantial damage to the composite structure. The pilot reported there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N999XX
- Reported as
- Scoda Aeronautica Ltda Super Petrel LS
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- S0370
- Built
- 2020
- Airframe hours
- 676
- Engine
- Rotax 912iS, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 7, 2025
- Departed
- 56NH · Middleton, NH
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- PSM · Portsmouth Intl At Pease, runway 16/34, 11,322 × 150 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Angle of attack indicator, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Auto-pilot
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
- 60
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 21, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 1,312.2 total · 635.5 in this make and model · 1,239.8 as pilot in command · 80.5 in the last 90 days · 32.8 in the last 30 days · 1.4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.17 inHg
- Observed at
- KPSM, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KPSM 181255Z 36010KT 10SM FEW035 FEW250 18/07 A3017 RMK AO2A SLP219 T01800074
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 20, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.9 MB in all.