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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 210C · La Porte, TX · June 30, 1985

Date
June 30, 1985 · 00:05 local
Place
La Porte, TX
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Forced Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3707Y
Reported as
Cessna 210C
Reported engine
Continental IO470S
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
480 total250 in this make and model30 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.

Engine backfired and quit in pattern. Landed gear up on runway. Cause of engine malfunction unknown at this time.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE BACKFIRED AND QUIT IN PATTERN. LANDED GEAR UP ON RUNWAY. CAUSE OF ENGINE MALFUNCTION UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME.