- Date
- September 3, 2021, 11:20 local (17:20 UTC)
- Place
- Hurricane, UT · airplane came to rest in an alfalfa field south of runway 19
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N15DQBellanca 17-30A
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: 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
- FSDO
- FAA report
- 20210903015359A
- Case key
- 103796
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear
Findings · 3
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 landing he failed to extend the landing gear and attempted to initiate a go-around. The airplane attained an altitude of about 100 ft above the ground before it would no longer climb and maintain airspeed. The pilot subsequently initiated a forced landing to a nearby field with the landing gear now extended. During the landing roll, the airplane collided with a barbed wire fence, substantially damaging the wings. The pilot reported no mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane other than the Auto-Axtion system, a pilot back-up device to automatically lower the landing regardless of the position of the landing gear switch, minimizing the possibility of an accidental gear-up landing did not work. The back-up system was not examined.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N15DQ
- Reported as
- Bellanca 17-30A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 75-30773
- Built
- 1975
- Airframe hours
- 1,239.81
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-K, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Lamina LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 31, 2021
- Departed
- KFLY · Meadow Lake, CO
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 1L8 · General Dick Stout Field, runway 19, 3,282 × 40 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Onboard weather, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Auto-pilot, Stall warning system, ADS-B
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
- 70
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 19, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,128 total · 100 in this make and model · 1,025 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 3002.00 inHg
- Observed at
- KSGU, 11 nm away
- METAR
- KSGU 031656Z VRB03KT 10SM CLR 26/12 A3002
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 31, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.0 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.