- Date
- November 12, 2025, 11:05 local (17:05 UTC)
- Place
- Jasper, AL · Gear up, On runway
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N95DJBeech D95A
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 29, 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
- 202190
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Probable cause
The pilots’ failure to ensure that the airplane’s landing gear was extended before landing. Contributing was the flight instructor’s inadequate supervision during the landing approach.
Findings · 3
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 flight instructor reported that during the instructional flight he and the pilot receiving instruction had just completed a simulated single-engine approach to a landing. During this approach, the right engine throttle was reduced to idle to simulate the failed engine and the landing gear position warning horn circuit breaker was pulled to silence the horn. After landing without incident, the crew departed with the intention of practicing short field landings. The flight instructor reported being distracted by incoming traffic, having to execute a 360º turn for spacing, and not completing the before landing checks using the printed checklist. The landing gear warning horn was not audible due to the circuit breaker not being reset and the landing gear lever was never selected to the down position prior to touchdown. The airplane contacted the runway with the landing gear retracted resulting in substantial damage to the lower fuselage. The flight instructor reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N95DJ
- Reported as
- Beech D95A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TD-556
- Built
- 1963
- Airframe hours
- 11,205
- Engines
- Lycoming IO-360-B1B, 180 horsepower, reciprocatingLycoming IO-360-B1B, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Sanders Aviation Inc
- Registered owner
- Sanders Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 24, 2025 · 43 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- JFX · Walker County/Bevill Fld, runway 27, 5,004 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- 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
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 26
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 2, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- None
- Flight hours
- 494 total · 94 in this make and model · 403 as pilot in command · 101 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 56
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Military
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- None
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 8 knots, gusting 13
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,600 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.27 inHg
- Observed at
- JFX
- METAR
- METAR KJFX 121555Z AUTO 27008G13KT 230V290 10SM OVC026 14/07 A3027
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 29, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.9 MB in all.