ERA26LA206 · Cessna 750
Hera Flight Cessna 750 · Accident: landing gear not configured
From Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA26LA206
- 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
- Ongoing
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- 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 750
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 750
- 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
- N119RM
- Operator
- Hera Flight
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL), Fort Lauderdale, FLTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- About 28 years (built 1998)
- 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
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On May 9, 2026, at 1014 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 750 airplane, N119RM, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Fort Myers, Florida. The captain and first officer were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 positioning flight. The first officer reported that on a previous flight in the accident airplane the crew had received multiple crew alerting system (CAS) messages which included a master caution (Stab Bleed Leak) and amber caution (Tail Cone Door Open) which the captain reported to maintenance. During the accident flight, on initial climb, the crew again received the CAS messages for the same master caution and amber caution repeatedly. The captain instructed the first officer to pull the audio warning circuit breaker once cruise altitude was reached, which the first officer accomplished. During approach to the airport, the first officer reported that the captain was instructing him throughout the approach. The first officer could not recall if he verbally called for the before landing checklist. The captain reported that he had begun the before landing checklist at the final approach fix but was interrupted when air traffic control issued them their landing clearance along with the master caution turning on and off. The captain reported that he did not go back over the before landing checklist after the interruption nor verbally called the checklist complete. Both crew members reported that the airplane landed with the landing gear retracted and the first officer reported that after the airplane came to a stop the captain selected the landing gear handle to the down position. A preliminary review of surveillance footage from the airport showed the airplane approaching the runway with the landing gear in the retracted position. The airplane subsequently touched down with the landing gear in the retracted position and slid to a stop on the runway. About 6 seconds after the airplane came to a stop the nose landing gear was observed beginning to deploy. A review of postaccident photographs showed that the airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. The airplane was retained for further examination.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA26LA206
- Event ID
- 20260513202979
- Case number
- ERA26LA206
- 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: 3788687f0e2248670df8e61cc18f0cbf21b8abf01553464deb6113b8bf310578; retrieved 2026-09-16T21:27:26.099Z.