Beechcraft 58 N2023V

Summary

On 10 July 2012 at about 18:40 local time, a Beechcraft 58 registered N2023V, operated by Dotaero L L C, was involved in an accident near Sugar Loaf Mountain, Michigan, United States. 3 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

10 July 2012 at 18:40

Classification

Accident

Location

Sugar Loaf Mountain, Michigan, United States

Nearest airport

Sugar Loaf Mountain (Y04)

Coordinates

44.9122, -85.8139

Aircraft

Beechcraft 58

Registration

N2023V

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Dotaero L L C

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Grand Rapids → Sugar Loaf Mountain

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CEN12CA436

Nobody was injured.

The pilot did not complete the before-landing checklist and, subsequently, failed to extend the landing gear prior to landing. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s distraction with his passengers’ conversation.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot, on a personal cross-country flight, had flown into the destination airport many times before and was familiar with the procedures associated with landing there. While completing the before-landing checklist, the pilot became distracted by conversation from the passengers. The pilot said that he did not hear the gear warning horn and, before he realized that the gear was still up, the airplane impacted the runway, sustaining substantial damage to the fuselage during the wheels-up landing. Earlier in the flight, the pilot briefed his passengers about having a sterile cockpit environment during the landing phase of flight, but the conversation did not cease. The pilot reported no mechanical anomalies associated with the accident.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.