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ERA22LA415

2022-08-25 · Georgetown, Delaware, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Airport GED

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

FAA avdata. C = Cause, 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. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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