Cessna 172RG gear-up landing

Thats a very poor gear unsafe horn. Sounds alot like a marker beacon.
I know its not the same but its very close.
 
Here’s why I think its an accident and not some kind of gear malfunction the pilot knew about.

1) Short final… my guess is he would have had a longer approach, used more runway.
2) No radio communications from what I heard, they are talking about golf? “I went back there the day after to swap my clubs and everything…”
3) No spectators, usually someone would be out watching the event if they knew it was going to happen, cant see anyone or any vehicles waiting on the ground.

My analysis, but I could be completely wrong.
 
nothing in the ntsb database for jan 07 and for the last few years with a cessna.
 
When he slaps his hands on the panel at the ends I can almost hear him thinking... "Oh, THAT'S what that beeping is!"
 
JEP said:
nothing in the ntsb database for jan 07 and for the last few years with a cessna.
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I don't think you would find too many gear-ups in the NTSB database because they normally don't substantially damage the aircraft, nor are there very many serious injuries. I know of a gear up at an airport in a Commander that isn't on their site either. There is, however, an accident at this airport where an older lady in her 172 ran off the runway into a ditch and ripped the nose gear off along with a bunch of other damage to the engine and firewall. In the report for this accident, the NTSB did specifically use the term "substantial damage".


As for a few other comments made earlier, I don't think the gear horn was added later unless the guy went through all the trouble of filtering channels and stuff because you can plainly hear the movement of the camera by the sound of the horn seeming to move from one sound channel to the other. I also thought it was a pure accident because the PIC slapped the panel at the end out of frustration or whatever instead of an act of relief.
 
From another website, talking about the incident:

"There was a snow storm approaching in about an hour and we were doing a check ride. Because of possible ice, we had been flying with the gear down the entire time. We started doing touch and goes after a while. Habit when you take off is to raise the gear. This is what happened. So, when we come around, they were conversing and what not and simply forgot the gear was up."
 
Seems like a sterile cockpit instead of chit chatting could have prevented this from happening.
 
JEP said:
nothing in the ntsb database for jan 07 and for the last few years with a cessna.
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According to the NTSB database, there was a gear up landing in a Cessna 206 at that specific airport, but none in a 172RG. A 206 doesn't have wing struts and the video shows a Cessna WITH wing struts... I'm not sure :confused:
 
triplec76 said:
I don't think you would find too many gear-ups in the NTSB database because they normally don't substantially damage the aircraft, nor are there very many serious injuries.........
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116 in the last 5 years listed in the database using the search string "Gear Up Landing". I'd imagine there are somewhat more.......You do see them a bit more in the preliminary database.
 
I think I read on AOPA that according to NASA ASRS forms there are over 100 gear-ups per year. So that would mean that 1/5th of gear-ups are bad enough to report or reported at all.

EDIT: It wasn't from AOPA, but directly from the ASRS website.
 
This accident had to be unintentional. Did anyone notice how high the plane was? He turned a close final. If I were performing an intentional gear up landing I would likely make a more normal approach. As far as the gear warning being "on top", have you heard one of those without a headset on? They are pretty loud.

My .02
 
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