- Date
- July 12, 2022, 17:45 local (Jul 13, 2022, 00:45 UTC)
- Place
- Scappoose, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N601NGPiper PA-60-601P
- 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
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20220712012469A
- Case key
- 105587
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. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s failure to utilize a prelanding checklist.
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 reported that, he was a little behind the airplane because of the short duration of the flight and he did not use a prelanding checklist to verify that the landing gear was extended before touchdown. The bottom of the fuselage was substantially damaged during the gear up landing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N601NG
- Reported as
- Piper PA-60-601P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 61P07908063402
- Built
- 1980
- Airframe hours
- 5,014
- Engines
- Lycoming IO-540-S1A5, 350 horsepower, reciprocatingLycoming IO-540-S1A5, 350 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Metro West Ambulance
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 15, 2021
- Departed
- HIO · Hillsboro, OR
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- SPB · Scappoose, runway 33, 5,100 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Onboard weather, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display
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
- 54
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 31, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 2,307 total · 860 in this make and model · 2,052 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 9 knots, gusting 17
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.84 inHg
- Observed at
- KSPB
- METAR
- KSPB 130053Z AUTO 31009G17KT 10SM -RA CLR 29/15 A2984 RMK AO2 SLP105 P0000 T02890150
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 30, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.5 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.