Narrative:

I was told by an internist and medlink that my passenger would not live more than 1 hour. We made the decision to divert to ZZZ. We were coming in very high. We could not comply with a crossing restriction. I came back into the loop from handling the medical issue and took the plane back from the first officer. I noted we were 3;000 feet high at the final approach fix. I did not want to risk going around. I asked for the gear down at 8;000 ft. After a couple minutes we had lost the extra altitude and I asked for the gear up. I was at 242 kts. I unintentionally exceeded the gear retraction speed. I should have noted the limit; but was prejudiced flying other equipment that 242 kts was slow enough to retract the gear. We made a write up. The exceedance was cleared by maintenance control. We exceeded the retraction speed by 7 kts. No damage to the aircraft.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B737 Captain reported that distraction during a time critical medical diversion caused him to exceed a landing gear speed limitation.

Narrative: I was told by an Internist and Medlink that my passenger would not live more than 1 hour. We made the decision to divert to ZZZ. We were coming in very high. We could not comply with a crossing restriction. I came back into the loop from handling the medical issue and took the plane back from the First Officer. I noted we were 3;000 feet high at the final approach fix. I did not want to risk going around. I asked for the gear down at 8;000 ft. After a couple minutes we had lost the extra altitude and I asked for the gear up. I was at 242 kts. I unintentionally exceeded the gear retraction speed. I should have noted the limit; but was prejudiced flying other equipment that 242 kts was slow enough to retract the gear. We made a write up. The exceedance was cleared by Maintenance Control. We exceeded the retraction speed by 7 kts. No damage to the aircraft.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.