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Attributes | |
ACN | 1139263 |
Time | |
Date | 201312 |
Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
Place | |
Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
State Reference | US |
Environment | |
Flight Conditions | VMC |
Light | Night |
Aircraft 1 | |
Make Model Name | M-20 M Bravo |
Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
Flight Phase | Landing |
Route In Use | Direct |
Flight Plan | IFR |
Component | |
Aircraft Component | Gear Extend/Retract Mechanism |
Person 1 | |
Function | Single Pilot |
Qualification | Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine |
Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 138.1 Flight Crew Total 1280 Flight Crew Type 109.1 |
Events | |
Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Gear Up Landing |
Narrative:
I was asked to keep my base for runway 17 within a mile and keep the speed up because of an md-80 on a nine mile final. I kept 140K until a one mile left base; and upon reaching 1;100 feet; I reduced the power to 12 inches of manifold and used the speed brakes to slow down. Below 140K I put the gear handle down; felt the gear move; and went to finish the rest of my before landing checklist. After I put the flaps down. I was around 1;000 feet from the numbers and I had 4 whites on the PAPI; so I reduced power to idle. There was no audible gear warning horn. I quickly ran a gumps check; and I believed the airplane was configured. Smoothly entering ground effect; I allowed it to make contact with the runway and heard a metallic sound. Soon after; the propeller stopped and the aircraft came to a stop on the runway. The only thing I could think of was the MD80 on short final so I prompted them to go around. After securing the airplane; the gear handle was down but the gear actuator circuit breaker was out.contributing factors are the fact the plane had been in maintenance for four weeks; the landing was night time; and I was asked to keep it fast and close to the runway. I feel if I had rejected the clearance and extended downwind behind the MD80 I would [have] had more time to notice the gear was not fully down. Although the checklist was completed; I had a detection error of not noticing the gear was not fully down; due to the time constraint from configuring to landing. Night time also made it a factor as I could not physically see the circuit breaker had popped out. The fact that the gear warning horn did not sound; further contributed to the error.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Expediting his arrival to help sequence a following MD80 landing the pilot of an M20-M failed to note his landing gear had failed to extend completely and landed gear up and disabled on the runway. The pilot made a transmission to the MD-80 advising of the predicament.
Narrative: I was asked to keep my base for Runway 17 within a mile and keep the speed up because of an MD-80 on a nine mile final. I kept 140K until a one mile left base; and upon reaching 1;100 feet; I reduced the power to 12 inches of manifold and used the speed brakes to slow down. Below 140K I put the gear handle down; felt the gear move; and went to finish the rest of my before landing checklist. After I put the flaps down. I was around 1;000 feet from the numbers and I had 4 whites on the PAPI; so I reduced power to idle. There was no audible gear warning horn. I quickly ran a GUMPS check; and I believed the airplane was configured. Smoothly entering ground effect; I allowed it to make contact with the runway and heard a metallic sound. Soon after; the propeller stopped and the aircraft came to a stop on the runway. The only thing I could think of was the MD80 on short final so I prompted them to go around. After securing the airplane; the gear handle was down but the gear actuator circuit breaker was out.Contributing factors are the fact the plane had been in maintenance for four weeks; the landing was night time; and I was asked to keep it fast and close to the runway. I feel if I had rejected the clearance and extended downwind behind the MD80 I would [have] had more time to notice the gear was not fully down. Although the checklist was completed; I had a detection error of not noticing the gear was not fully down; due to the time constraint from configuring to landing. Night time also made it a factor as I could not physically see the circuit breaker had popped out. The fact that the gear warning horn did not sound; further contributed to the error.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.