Crj-900 captain reported they were late to lower the landcrj-900 captain reported being late to lowe...

Narrative:

On approach both I and the first officer failed to recognize that we hadn't put the gear down at the normal time. We noticed just before/as the gear warning sounded. We should have gone around; but instinctively; the first officer (who was flying) said gear down; flaps 30. I instinctively did it rather than calling for a go around. We got the gear and flaps down; and were stabilized in plenty of time; but perhaps not by the 1000 feet AGL that we should have been. I'm not sure when we got fully configured; but it was close to 1000 feet.in retrospect; we should have gone around at the first indication of being that low with the gear not down; but we both just kicked into the fix-it mode and tried to get configured how we should have already been. I don't believe we were unsafe as we landed without incident; but the safer thing would have been to go-around.the lessons are manifold. We were at the end of a long day; and felt fat dumb and happy; when we had failed to do a basic thing. Don't let yourself get into that position in the first place. However; finding yourself there; do the right thing. Don't force a bad situation. Go around; sort it out; kick yourself for being dumb; and get it right the next time.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CRJ-900 Captain reported they were late to lower the landCRJ-900 Captain reported being late to lower the landing gear; but elected to land rather than go-around for an unstabilized approach.

Narrative: On approach both I and the FO failed to recognize that we hadn't put the gear down at the normal time. We noticed just before/as the gear warning sounded. We should have gone around; but instinctively; the FO (who was flying) said gear down; flaps 30. I instinctively did it rather than calling for a go around. We got the gear and flaps down; and were stabilized in plenty of time; but perhaps not by the 1000 feet AGL that we should have been. I'm not sure when we got fully configured; but it was close to 1000 feet.In retrospect; we should have gone around at the first indication of being that low with the gear not down; but we both just kicked into the fix-it mode and tried to get configured how we should have already been. I don't believe we were unsafe as we landed without incident; but the safer thing would have been to go-around.The lessons are manifold. We were at the end of a long day; and felt fat dumb and happy; when we had failed to do a basic thing. Don't let yourself get into that position in the first place. However; finding yourself there; do the right thing. Don't force a bad situation. Go around; sort it out; kick yourself for being dumb; and get it right the next time.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.

Attributes
ACN	1421219
Time
Date	201701
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Regional Jet 900 (CRJ900)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200 Flight Crew Total 14000 Flight Crew Type 3000
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach

Crj-900 captain reported they were late to lower the landcrj-900 captain reported being late to lower the landing gear; but elected to land rather than go-around for an unstabilized approach.