<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1119064, September 2013

A fatigued and distracted A330 crew selected the gear down at 900 ft on a visual approach with landing flaps set.

Attributes
ACN	1119064
Time
Date	201309
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A330
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Relief Pilot
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

Visual approach; airplane was configured for landing with full flaps; prior to selecting the landing gear down. This is a non-standard order and not done intentionally. Landing gear was selected down at 900 ft MSL after recognition that the landing gear was not down; prior to any aircraft warning but too late for a stabilized approach. Normally gear is selected down when selecting flaps 3 and occurs well above 1;000 ft. Contributing factors to why the event occurred were 1. A distraction on the FMS / flight director showing an altitude constraint of 3;300 ft on the ILS 8L while we were flying a hand-flown visual approach and 2. Fatigue after a long flight.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A fatigued and distracted A330 crew selected the gear down at 900 FT on a visual approach with landing flaps set.

Narrative: Visual approach; airplane was configured for landing with full flaps; prior to selecting the landing gear down. This is a non-standard order and not done intentionally. Landing gear was selected down at 900 FT MSL after recognition that the landing gear was not down; prior to any aircraft warning but too late for a stabilized approach. Normally gear is selected down when selecting flaps 3 and occurs well above 1;000 FT. Contributing factors to why the event occurred were 1. A distraction on the FMS / Flight Director showing an altitude constraint of 3;300 FT on the ILS 8L while we were flying a hand-flown visual approach and 2. Fatigue after a long flight.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.