- Date
- March 18, 2016, 12:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Huntsville, AL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N358CBBeech 58
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 1, 2016
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20160318004419A
- Case key
- 92885
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear prior to touchdown resulting in a landing with the landing gear retracted and consequent substantial damage.
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
According to the pilot, after completing the maintenance test flight, he established a normal approach to the runway. However, he reported that he did not extend the landing gear prior to touchdown and the airplane landed with the landing gear retracted. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing, left aileron and the bottom of the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical failures or anomalies with the airplane prior to or during the flight that would have prevented normal flight operation.
Factual narrative
According to the pilot, after completing the maintenance test flight, he established a normal approach to the runway. However, he reported that he did not extend the landing gear prior to touchdown and the airplane landed with the landing gear retracted. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing, left aileron and the bottom of the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical failures or anomalies with the airplane prior to or during the flight that would have prevented normal flight operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N358CB
- Reported as
- Beech 58 (G)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH-985
- Built
- 1978
- Airframe hours
- 5,477
- Engines
- Continental Motor IO 520 CB, 285 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental Motor IO 520 CB, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Dese Enterprises LLC
- Registered owner
- Dese Enterprises LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 11, 2016
- Departed
- HSV · Huntsville, AL
- Destination
- HSV · Huntsville, AL
- Airport
- HSV · Huntsville Intl-Carl T Jones F, runway 36R, 10,006 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Auto-pilot, 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
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 12, 2015
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,158 total · 432 in this make and model · 947 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 32 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- HSV
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 5, 2016, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.4 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.