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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event WPR23LA033

2022-10-05 Freeport, Illinois, United States Airport · KFEP None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N147DT

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A36

Year of manufacture

1998 · 24 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19980322

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0BD0E

Registrant of record

GABRIELLA ELENA INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Probable cause & findings

The pilot’s failure to extend the landing gear.

Factual narrative

The pilot reported that, while in the pattern practicing touch and go landings, he became distracted, failed to use the pre-landing checklist, and forgot to extend the airplane’s landing gear. He landed the airplane with the landing gear retracted and skidded to a stop on the runway, resulting in substantial damage to the lower fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that have precluded normal operation. 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-Pilot
  • Aircraft-Aircraft systems-Landing gear system-Gear extension and retract sys-Not used/operated

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_2022_WPR23LA033.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (icing). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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