ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 240791
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| Date: | Friday 27 March 2020 |
| Time: | 00:15 |
| Type: |  Aero Commander 500 |
| Owner/operator: | Central Airlines Inc |
| Registration: | N516DT |
| MSN: | 1574 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1965 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 25876 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming IO540-E145 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Opalocka, FL -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Tampa, FL (VDF) |
| Miami, FL (OPF) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot reported that, during the descent to final, he began the GUMPS checklist. As he turned on the fuel tanks, he picked up interference on the radios. After fixing the radio situation, he continued the checklist. During the landing flare, he noticed that the "runway sight picture" seemed lower than normal. As he noticed this, he looked at the landing gear indicator, and the landing gear warning horn simultaneously sounded, so he initiated a go-around. While climbing to traffic pattern altitude, he noticed that he had failed to extend the landing gear. He added that he had not heard or felt the airplane contact the runway before the go-around. The pilot subsequently landed without incident and noted no damage during a cursory postflight inspection. He then departed and landed at another airport. Subsequently, he performed a more thorough postflight inspection of the airplane, during which he noticed that the marker beacon antenna was shaved off and that the lower fuselage of the airplane had sustained substantial damage consistent with ground contact.
Probable Cause: The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear due to distraction and his delayed go-around, which allowed the airplane to get too low and contact the runway with the landing gear retracted.
Accident investigation:
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 01-Sep-2020 16:56 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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