Kan. pilot forgets to retract landing gear during touch-and-go practice

SEDGWICK COUNTY — The pilot of a small plane avoided injury after an accident just after 10 a.m. Tuesday in Sedgwick County.

The Mooney M20C involved in Tuesday’s accident photo courtesy KWCH

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1966 Mooney M20C piloted by Blair Gordon Gill, 56, Wichita, was doing touch-and-go landings at Jabara Airport, 3512 North Webb Road in Wichita.

The pilot forgot to retract his landing gear after completing his first touch-and-go. On his second landing, the pilot thought he was extending the landing gear but was in fact retracting it.

This resulted in a gear-up landing on Runway 18, according to the KHP. Gill was not injured.