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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 210J · Kankakee, IL · May 7, 1980

Date
May 7, 1980 · 11:30 local
Place
Kankakee, IL
Airport
Greater
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3339S
Reported as
Cessna 210J
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,100 total1,000 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Pilot failed to visually check gear down before landing wheels up. Gear warning horn was inoperative.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT FAILED TO VISUALLY CHECK GEAR DOWN BEFORE LANDING WHEELS UP. GEAR WARNING HORN WAS INOPERATIVE.