Cessna 340 N340LT Gear-Up Landing at Paris-Orly

Flight and Accident Sequence On 25 August 2016, a Cessna 340 registered N340LT departed La Rochelle around 20:15 local time for an instrument flight to Toussus-le-Noble. The pilot, a 72-year-old private and commercial pilot with about 12,500 total flight hours, contacted Orly Approach and joined an ILS approach to runway 25R. While intercepting the ILS at about 3,000 ft and 7 nautical miles from the threshold, the pilot commanded the landing gear to extend and found it did not deploy. After checking the gear motor circuit breaker and retrying the normal command without success, the pilot informed approach and held at about 2,000 ft around Toussus-le-Noble to attempt an emergency gear extension. The pilot applied the emergency extension procedure and turned the hand crank, but the gear movement indicator did not illuminate. Alarm tests showed no other malfunction. Further attempts to extend the gear by the emergency method were unsuccessful. Approach then advised the pilot to divert to Paris-Orly, where fire and rescue services were available for a gear-up landing. The pilot received radar vectors to runway 20 and landed with the gear retracted at 21:56 local time. The aircraft was heavily damaged.