WPR15LA202 · Short Bros SD3 60 VARIANT100
Trans Executive Airlines of Hawaii Short Bros SD3 60 VARIANT100 · Accident: landing gear not configured
From Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL) to Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL)
Event
- NTSB case
- WPR15LA202
- 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
- Accident
- 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
- General aviation
- 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
Short Bros SD3 60 VARIANT100
- Aircraft type
- Short Bros SD3
- 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
- N221LM
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL), Honolulu, HITo Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL), Honolulu, HI
- Aircraft age
- About 28 years (built 1987)
- 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 91: General Aviation
- 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 · flare/touchdown
- 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
- Landing gear not configured
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft systems
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The captain/check pilot was conducting a scheduled flight check of the first officer. The pilots reported that the approach was uneventful and that they thought that they had completed the Before Landing checklist, which included extending the landing gear and verifying that it was down before landing. However, the airplane landed with the gear up. The airplane had a tricycle landing gear with a fully retractable nose gear and partially retractable main gear. During the landing roll, about a few hundred feet after touchdown on the main gear and as the airplane's nose was lowered, the forward bottom section of the fuselage contacted the runway surface, which resulted in substantial damage. Once the airplane came to a stop, the pilots safely egressed. The pilots reported that they landed the airplane with the landing gear inadvertently retracted.
Probable cause
The pilots’ failure to extend the landing gear before landing. Contributing to the accident was the pilots’ failure to complete the Before Landing checklist.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record WPR15LA202
- Event ID
- 20150630X71019
- Case number
- WPR15LA202
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 2015-06-30.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 87e05a08872caf424be0c71977e4e10963e0bff8e2171c6724320b007d9d4f97; retrieved 2026-09-16T02:28:35.335Z.