- Date
- June 16, 2020, 12:55 local (19:55 UTC)
- Place
- Maricopa, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N117KPCessna P210
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20200616006729A
- Case key
- 101455
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 airplane’s retractable 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 was conducting a straight in approach to the runway in turbulent, gusty wind conditions. During the approach, he did not verify that he had extended the airplane’s retractable landing gear. As the flared the airplane during the landing, he heard the landing gear warning horn, but it was too late to go-around. He subsequently landed the airplane with the landing gear retracted. The airplane's lower fuselage was substantially damaged. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical anomalies with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N117KP
- Reported as
- Cessna P210 (N)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- P21000117
- Built
- 1978
- Airframe hours
- 3,473
- Engine
- Continental Motors TSIO-520 SER, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 27, 2019 · 153 hours before
- Departed
- FFZ · Mesa, AZ
- Destination
- A39 · Maricopa, AZ
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- A39 · Ak-Chin Regional Airport, runway 22, 4,751 × 50 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Data recorder, Auto-pilot, Electronic primary flight display, Satellite tracking device, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Angle of attack indicator
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
- 55
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 18, 2019
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 1,535 total · 487 in this make and model · 1,535 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 5 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 102 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.86 inHg
- Observed at
- A39
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 25, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 11.9 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.