SkyWest Airlines Flight 6467
Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B19 · Incident: system/component malfunction/failure (non-power) during landing
From San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to Ontario International Airport (ONT)
Event
- NTSB case
- WPR10IA256
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B19
- Aircraft type
- Bombardier CL-600
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N925SW
- Operator
- SkyWest Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From San Francisco International Airport (SFO), San Francisco, CATo Ontario International Airport (ONT), Ontario, CA
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 121: Air Carrier
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- System/component malfunction/failure (non-power)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft systems
- Not determined › Not determined
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
After the pilots extended the airplane’s landing gear in preparation for landing, they observed an unsafe nose landing gear indication and performed a go-around to try to correct the situation. The pilots followed the emergency procedures in the operator’s Quick Reference Handbook but were unable to lower the nose landing gear. The pilots then performed a low-level flyby so air traffic control tower (ATCT) and ground personnel could evaluate the condition of the nose landing gear. When ATCT and ground personnel confirmed that the landing gear doors were open and the nose landing gear remained retracted, the pilots decided to make an emergency landing with the nose landing gear retracted. After the main landing gear touched down, the captain held the nose off the ground as long as possible, in accordance with company procedures. The airplane slid about 2,000 feet after the nose settled to the runway before coming to a stop. During the recovery process, the nose landing gear was extended. Postaccident examination revealed no abnormalities that would have precluded normal operation of the nose landing gear system.
Probable cause
Failure of the airplane’s nose landing gear to extend for undetermined reasons.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record WPR10IA256
- Event ID
- 20100523X62317
- Case number
- WPR10IA256
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: bb2333ac112465d1f5c82944b2ebcb59d6e834223f1ada7428c0b0e3039cfa82; retrieved 2026-09-15T14:11:30.792Z.