- Date
- December 12, 2025, 12:26 local (17:26 UTC)
- Place
- Atlanta, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N37RRPipistrel D O O Panthera X152
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 14, 2026
- 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
- 20251212020799A
- Case key
- 202258
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.
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 reported that during a visual approach to land, he inadvertently landed with the landing gear retracted. The airplane came to rest on the right side of the runway and sustained substantial damage to the lower fuselage during the accident sequence. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N37RR
- Reported as
- Pipistrel D O O Panthera X152
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- PX1520006
- Built
- 2021
- Airframe hours
- 445
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-V4A5, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Warshauer Holdings LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · August 21, 2025 · 37 hours before
- Departed
- SPA · Spartanburg, SC
- Destination
- FTY · Atlanta, GA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- FTY · Fulton County Exec/Charlie Brown Fld, runway 26, 5,797 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Angle of attack indicator, Airframe parachute, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Onboard weather, Electronic primary flight display, Data recorder, 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
- 67
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 17, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 705 total · 40 in this make and model · 650 as pilot in command · 52 in the last 90 days · 17 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- FTY
- METAR
- SPECI KFTY 121726Z 22006KT 10SM CLR 14/02 A3004 RMK AO2 T01390017=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 14, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.5 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.