American A319 at Monterey on Jan 15th 2026, landing gear did not extend

Last Update: January 16, 2026 / 18:08:32 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jan 15, 2026

Classification
Incident

Airline
American Airlines

Flight number
AA-1866

Departure
Phoenix, United States

Destination
Monterey, United States

Aircraft Registration
N816AW

Aircraft Type
Airbus A319

ICAO Type Designator
A319

An American Airlines Airbus A319-100, registration N816AW performing flight AA-1866 from Phoenix,AZ to Monterey,CA (USA) with 90 people on board, was on final approach to Monterey's runway 10R when the crew initiated a go around reporting a problem with the aircraft. The crew subsequently declared PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN advising their landing gear did not come down and they would divert to San Francisco hoping to be able to lower the gear by alternate means until then. While enroute to SFO the crew advised, they were able to extend the landing gear via alternate means and had three greens, they would stop on the runway and have emergency services check the aircraft. The would need to be towed off the runway as they did not have any nose wheel steering. The aircraft landed safely on San Francisco's runway 28R about 35 minutes after the go around.

A passenger reported the crew announced they could not get the landing gear down and were diverting to SFO as a precaution for the longer runway and emergency services available. The landing gear did not come down until they were nearly at SFO, the passenger thought they would do a belly landing.
Aircraft Registration Data
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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jan 15, 2026

Classification
Incident

Airline
American Airlines

Flight number
AA-1866

Departure
Phoenix, United States

Destination
Monterey, United States

Aircraft Registration
N816AW

Aircraft Type
Airbus A319

ICAO Type Designator
A319

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