- Date
- May 24, 2022, 19:15 local (May 25, 2022, 02:15 UTC)
- Place
- Page, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N44CZCo-Z Development Cozy Mark IV
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- Case key
- 105163
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 failure to install the correct fuse in the landing gear circuit.
Findings · 1
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, the landing gear did not deploy on approach and the airplane subsequently landed with the nose gear retracted. The pilot stated the wrong electrical fuse was installed in the landing gear circuit. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported no other preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N44CZ
- Reported as
- Co-Z Development Cozy Mark IV
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1
- Built
- 1988
- Airframe hours
- 1,150
- Engine
- Co-Z Development Cozy Mark IV, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Randy Jaeger
- Registered owner
- Throery Seventy Three Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · March 29, 2022 · 1,150 hours before
- Departed
- KCNO · Chino, CA
- Destination
- KPGA · Page, AZ
- Airport
- PGA · Page Municipal, runway 33, 5,950 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Handheld GPS, Onboard weather, Satellite tracking device, 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
- 59
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 5, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 309 total · 309 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- Variable at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 19 °F, dew point -11 °F
- Observed at
- KPGA METAR
- METAR
- METAR KPGA 242153Z AUTO VRB04KT 10SM CLR 27/M10 A2989 RMK AO2 SLP062 T02671100 $=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 4, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.2 MB in all.