NTSB CAROL · Event
Event ERA22LA415
Aircraft involved
Probable cause & findings
The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear before landing. Contributing to the accident was an inoperative landing gear warning horn.
Factual narrative
According to the pilot, he was distracted by communications difficulties due to issues with the airplane’s headset jacks while conducting an instrument approach. The pilot reported that the landing gear warning horn did not alert him as to the gear being in the “up” position and, in the resulting landing, he did not lower the landing gear. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the lower fuselage. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that the landing gear warning horn was inoperative. 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-Task performance-Use of equip/info-Use of equip/system-Pilot
- — Aircraft-Aircraft systems-Landing gear system-Gear extension and retract sys-Not used/operated
- — Aircraft-Aircraft systems-Landing gear system-Gear position and warning-Inoperative
Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file
NTSB_2022_ERA22LA415.txt.
Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb.
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