ERA24LA288 · Cessna R182
Cessna R182 · Accident: landing gear not configured
From Medina Municipal Airport (1G5) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA24LA288
- 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
Cessna R182
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 182
- 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
- N182GZ
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Medina Municipal Airport (1G5), Medina, OHTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- About 46 years (built 1978)
- 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
- 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
- Personnel issues › Task performance
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
According to the pilot, he had just purchased the airplane which was equipped with retractable landing gear. He had hired a flight instructor to deliver the airplane to his home airport and paid the flight instructor to stay an extra day to fly with him, familiarize him with the airplane, and give him a flight review, as the flight instructor had previously given him a flight review in another airplane he had once owned. According to the flight instructor, all had gone well until they came in for the last landing. The flight instructor had noticed that the landing gear was not down, but kept thinking the pilot was going to put it down, and thought the pilot was reaching over to lower the landing gear but it was too late. The airplane contacted the runway with the landing gear retracted and its fuselage was substantially damaged. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to extend the landing gear and the flight instructor’s lack of remedial action, which resulted in a landing with the landing gear not correctly configured.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA24LA288
- Event ID
- 20240701194589
- Case number
- ERA24LA288
- 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, coordinates, cause areas. 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: 5b0e6c716fb6612153c12cd8aee1d5fb887b44a54242fdaf4595a3bbf4742513; retrieved 2026-09-16T18:59:22.963Z.