- Date
- August 9, 2017, 12:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Cairo, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4986SRockwell International 114
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 15, 2017
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA/ FSDO
- FAA report
- 20170809012849A
- Case key
- 95799
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, which resulted in a gear-up landing and a runway overrun.
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 airplane touched down during landing with the landing gear retracted and skidded to a stop in grass about 140 ft past the end of the runway threshold. The pilot reported during a telephone conversation with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator-in-charge that, "it was a simple gear-up landing, I forgot to put the [landing gear] switch down." He added that he was not wearing noise canceling headphones, and he reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The left wing sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported in the NTSB Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident/Incident Report, "no accident, as specified by NTSB for gear up landing, is admitted."
Factual narrative
The airplane touched down during landing with the landing gear retraced and skidded to a stop in grass about 140 ft. past the end of the runway threshold. The pilot reported during a telephone conversation with the NTSB investigator-in-charge that, "it was a simple gear-up landing, I forgot to put the [landing gear] switch down." He added that he was not wearing noise canceling headphones and did not report any preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The left wing sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported in the NTSB Pilot/ Operator Aircraft Accident/ Incident Report, "no accident, as specified by NTSB for gear up landing, is admitted."
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4986S
- Reported as
- Rockwell International 114 (B)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 14019
- Built
- 1976
- Airframe hours
- 2,520
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 28, 2016
- Departed
- MWA · Marion, IL
- Destination
- CIR · Cairo, IL
- Airport
- CIR · Cairo Rgnl, runway 20, 3,200 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Handheld GPS
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
- 62
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.13 inHg
- Observed at
- KCIR
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 1, 2017, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.4 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.