M-20 M Bravo
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Commercial
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 138.1; Flight Crew Total 1280; Flight Crew Type 109.1
Human-Machine Interface; Distraction
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Gear Up Landing
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged
Aircraft; Human Factors; Procedure
I was asked to keep my base for Runway 17 within a mile and keep the speed up because of an MD-80 on a nine mile final. I kept 140K until a one mile left base; and upon reaching 1;100 feet; I reduced the power to 12 inches of manifold and used the speed brakes to slow down. Below 140K I put the gear handle down; felt the gear move; and went to finish the rest of my before landing checklist. After I put the flaps down. I was around 1;000 feet from the numbers and I had 4 whites on the PAPI; so I reduced power to idle. There was no audible gear warning horn. I quickly ran a GUMPS check; and I believed the airplane was configured. Smoothly entering ground effect; I allowed it to make contact with the runway and heard a metallic sound. Soon after; the propeller stopped and the aircraft came to a stop on the runway. The only thing I could think of was the MD80 on short final so I prompted them to go around. After securing the airplane; the gear handle was down but the gear actuator circuit breaker was out.Contributing factors are the fact the plane had been in maintenance for four weeks; the landing was night time; and I was asked to keep it fast and close to the runway. I feel if I had rejected the clearance and extended downwind behind the MD80 I would [have] had more time to notice the gear was not fully down. Although the checklist was completed; I had a detection error of not noticing the gear was not fully down; due to the time constraint from configuring to landing. Night time also made it a factor as I could not physically see the circuit breaker had popped out. The fact that the gear warning horn did not sound; further contributed to the error.
Expediting his arrival to help sequence a following MD80 landing the pilot of an M20-M failed to note his landing gear had failed to extend completely and landed gear up and disabled on the runway. The pilot made a transmission to the MD-80 advising of the predicament.