- Date
- November 30, 1999, 12:05 local (17:05 UTC)
- Place
- Jacksonville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1818RCessna 182RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 30, 2000
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19991130042629A
- Case key
- 47834
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
The pilot's failure to complete the before landing checklist and extend the landing gear, resulting in a gear up landing. A factor in the accident is the failure of the landing gear warning circuit to activate the cockpit warning horn.
Analysis
The pilot stated that he intended to fly one circuit around the landing pattern to warm the engine oil in preparation for an annual inspection of his Cessna 182RG, and forgot to extend the landing gear before landing. The main landing gear bulkheads were minimally ground down during the slide on the concrete runway. Postcrash check of the landing gear warning system revealed the electrical warning module was inoperative.
Factual narrative
On November 30, 1999, about 1205 eastern standard time, a Cessna 182RG, N1818R, registered to a private individual, operating as a Title 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight, made a gear-up landing at Jacksonville International Airport, Jacksonville, Florida. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The airplane received substantial damage and the private-rated pilot, the sole occupant, was not injured. The flight originated from the same airport about 15 minutes before the accident.
According to the pilot, he intended to fly the airplane around the landing traffic pattern to warm the crankcase oil in preparation for an oil change and annual inspection, and forgot to lower the landing gear for landing. A postaccident check of the airplane revealed the main landing gear bulkheads were minimally ground down by the slide on the concrete runway, and the gear unsafe warning horn circuit was inoperative, although the gear up amber position lights operated normally.
According to an FAA inspector, the pilot stated to him that he failed to extend the landing gear. The inspector confirmed that the dual warning horn assembly, (stall and gear-up with throttle at idle) was found to be inoperative, postaccident.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1818R
- Reported as
- Cessna 182RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R18200572
- Airframe hours
- 2,693
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-J3C5D, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Joseph J. Carter, Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 8, 1998 · 87 hours before
- Departed
- JAX · Jacksonville, FL
- Airport
- JAX · Jacksonville Internationa, runway 7, 10,000 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 51
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,792 total · 1,493 in this make and model · 1,665 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 12 knots, gusting 22
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JAX
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.