Monday, March 08, 2021

Socata TBM-900, N900EY: Accident occurred March 07, 2021 at Music City Executive Airport (KXNX), Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee

Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office; Nashville, Tennessee

Aircraft landed gear up.

Hampton Aviation LLC


Date: 07-MAR-21
Time: 19:45:00Z
Regis#: N900EY
Aircraft Make: SOCATA
Aircraft Model: TMB700
Event Type: ACCIDENT
Highest Injury: NONE
Aircraft Missing: No
Damage: SUBSTANTIAL
Activity: PERSONAL
Flight Phase: LANDING (LDG)
Operation: 91
City: GALLATIN
State: TENNESSEE



GALLATIN, Tennessee (WKRN) — Two people were onboard a single-engine plane that went off the runway while attempting to land at Music City Executive Airport in Gallatin over the weekend.

A spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration said the Socata TBM-700 attempted to land on Runway 35 around 2:45 p.m. Sunday with the landing gear retracted, when it slid off the runway.

The plane had departed from Dexter, Missouri, according to FlightAware.

An airport official said two people were onboard the small plane and were not injured.

No additional information was immediately released.

The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate and the National Transportation Safety Board will determine the cause of the accident.

29 comments:

  1. A 5-years young aircraft now will have a damage history because the idiot behind the controls didn't follow the checklist. A never ending story. Well at least he remembered to turn the pressurization on prior to departure.

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    1. Those who talk the most, usually know the least. That too is a never ending story.

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    2. "Those who talk the most, usually know the least. That too is a never ending story"


      Well this is an aviation related website. If you are a Democrat voter on a political website, that is always the case. But facts don't change the fact that if the NTSB finds out you failed to put the gear down AS PROCEDURE IN THE CHECKLIST REQUIRES, you are at fault. It's really not that hard to understand.

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  2. So now it's going to be a little bit harder and more expensive for the rest of use to get insurance.

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  3. Maybe a hearing impaired pilot? From the POH:

    Landing gear horn
    Landing gear horn is controlled by throttle and / or flaps. It sounds (continuous high-pitched sound) when :
    - throttle is on IDLE position and landing gear is not down-locked
    - flaps are beyond ”TO” position (Takeoff) and landing gear is not down-locked

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    1. There are many horns, yes, but when the pilot is oversaturated with tasks/distracted a lot, all that sound will not get his attention in time. I speak from my own experience.

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    2. I believe horn is only with flaps.. they landed flaps up.. either way unfortunate.

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    3. Surprising that GPS-based glass cockpit systems don't all offer the option and interface to compare gear status to a user-set alarm height above terrain. Be warned visually at a height you choose.

      Maybe the earning potential of adding that feature would get wiped out in the first gear-up lawsuit from a user who set it up wrong and sues.

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  4. Perhaps someone should start an insurance company that only covers fixed gear aircraft.

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  5. Or don't pay for gear ups unless there was a mechanical problem

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  6. Gear up landings occur about 3-4 times per day. Not the first time and not the last. Be glad the pilot and passenger are okay. And be glad it wasn't you. You're not perfect either.

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  7. Or, they could give the nice airplanes to people who promise to follow check lists and the fixed gear planes to people who don't.

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  8. There is no excuse for this. I was taught that if there is another person in the plane you just ask them if they see 3 lights on the gear indicator. This habit in your checklist along with the closed loop communication that it elicits prevents this preventable mishap from happening.

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  9. I remember way back in flight school in the Army, an old IP told me, “two things to remember when you do a gear up landing; 1. The maintenance guys are going to hate you; 2. It’s real embarrassing and a long process trying to taxi back to the hanger.”

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  10. Why wouldn't you always look for 3 green as you line up on the approach? You can't land without that.

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    1. Sure you can. He did. Just not the best technique.

      1. There are those who have.
      2. There are those who will.
      3. There are those who will, again.
      4. There are those who will retire first. I'm in group 4.

      Stuff happens in airplanes. Not all of it is good. You post sure sounds great but pilots have been landing gear up since gear was designed to retract. Surely you know this. It's not as simple as you propose.

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  11. I was taught to also use GUMPS before landing besides the checklist.

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  12. This is why you get a Cirrus... idiot proof to a degree with fixed gear and that chute. Plus a nice speed 2/3 of the TBM for 1/5th the cost...
    And the same G1000 suite.

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    1. Cirrus not so idiot proof. We had a pilot take off at our airport with low fuel. Engine quit on down wind departure 1500' 1100' AGL Pilot deployed parachute hit the ground nose first. Need I say more?

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  13. ownership registration since 08-Jan-2016 HAMPTON AVIATION LLC DUDLEY MO.
    "Hampton Aviation specializes in heavy structural repair, maintenance, modifications, and more on any aircraft from piston singles to cabin class turbines.

    Since 1965, Hampton Aviation has maintained a singular focus: taking care of our customers. As experts in the industry of aviation service and repair, we’ve spent over five decades performing repairs, modifications, maintenance, and more on an extensive list of aircraft. With our proven combination of quality, cost effectiveness, and turn around time, we can confidently say that Hampton Aviation is unlike any other structural repair facility in the industry."

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    1. There is a lot of irony in that information.

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  14. Looks like this is the Original Owner. Unfortunately, this is a REGULAR OCCURRANCE in the TBM community, since SIMCOM, the manufacturer's sole designated training facility has incredibly POOR QUALITY CONTROL over its instructors. They ROUTINELY INSTRUCT on initials and recurrents 'it's okay to land flaps up' but the TBM has no warning mechanism, eg, gear horn in the flaps up position. It is SHAMEFUL that Daher does not - and has not - worked with or demanded SIMCOM get its act together, in connection with awarding them their sole pilot training contract. I understand the CEO of Daher, Nicholas Chabbert and head of SIMCOM, Eric Hinson, are longtime best buds, probably interfering with the execution of good judgment to get SIMCOM to get their sjit together and hire better instructors and quit teaching the wrong stuff. Meanwhile, everyone else has to pay for this $$1 ++ million mistake because of stupid pilots who were trained wrong.

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    1. It's my understanding that 6 TBMs have had gear up landings since 1991 that did not involve mechanical failure. I'm not sure that qualifies as a regular OCCURRENCE.

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  15. There are a lot of Monday morning quarterbacks on here.

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  16. Like the ole saying.....There are two types of retractable landing gear aircraft.....Those that have landed with the gear up, and those that will.......eventually. Also, a farmer that doesn't tear up a plow every now and then isn't using it much.

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    1. This is not true. Sticking to SOP's will guarantee no gear up landing. 200k on motorcycles here in 10 years and not even a single close call... why? because I stuck to a strict process of knowing my limits, the limits of the bike and the limits of the environment, and being responsible to stay within them. And SIPDE all the way.
      Same here. Aviation is about process process process and checklist checklist checklist. And if you stick to what the FAA recommends you will prosper and be accident/incident free. At least for a human lifetime.
      That aside I expect the plane to be on sale soon... owner/operator uninsurable. With damage history.

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    2. "Sticking to SOP's will guarantee no gear up landing."

      Didn't you claim to be a CFI? If you really were one, you'd have learned about human factors and you'd know that people occasionally make mistakes.

      "And if you stick to what the FAA recommends you will prosper and be accident/incident free."

      Complete nonsense. That's something a non-pilot would write.

      "That aside I expect the plane to be on sale soon... owner/operator uninsurable. With damage history."

      You "expect" a lot of things that don't remotely resemble reality.

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    3. "You "expect" a lot of things that don't remotely resemble reality."

      And you are highly defensive. I wonder why that is? You geared up didn't you? I can smell that old burned aluminum still on your pants from here.

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