NTSB CAROL · Event
Event CEN22LA434
Aircraft involved
Probable cause & findings
The flight crew’s failure to ensure the landing gear was down which resulted in a gear up landing and subsequent runway excursion.
Factual narrative
The captain reported that the airplane was on a stabilized approach when, just before the airplane touched down, he heard a horn activate. He did not realize that the landing gear was not fully down until the nose landing gear touched down and he heard metal grinding. The airplane veered off the right side of the runway and came to rest about 20 ft from the edge. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the bottom of the fuselage. The captain’s recollection of the landing gear selection was “fuzzy” following the accident. A postaccident functional test of the landing gear system showed normal extension and retraction. No other preaccident failures or malfunctions were noted with the airplane or systems that would have precluded normal operations. The lack of anomalies indicated that the flight crew failed to ensure the landing gear was down before landing. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database Retrieved: 2026-02-12
NTSB Findings
Hierarchical cause / factor breakdown from the FAA bulk avdata database. Each finding tagged C (Cause) or F (Factor).
- — Personnel issues-Action/decision-Action-Forgotten action/omission-Flight crew
- — Aircraft-Aircraft systems-Landing gear system-Gear extension and retract sys-Not used/operated
Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file
NTSB_2022_CEN22LA434.txt.
Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb.
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