19961202043539I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 210D · Shreveport, LA · December 2, 1996

Date
December 2, 1996 · 15:03 local
Place
Shreveport, LA
Airport
Shreveport Regional
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3983Y
Reported as
Cessna 210D
Reported engine
Continental O470N
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
8,937 total75 in this make and model12 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.

Narrative: the pilot was making a local test flight to check the auto pilot. The pilot apparently got detracted with the auto pilot and failed to extend the landing gear when making his landing on runway 14 at Shreveport Regional Airport.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: THE PILOT WAS MAKING A LOCAL TEST FLIGHT TO CHECK THE AUTO PILOT. THE PILOT APPARENTLY GOT DETRACTED WITH THE AUTO PILOT AND FAILED TO EXTEND THE LANDING GEAR WHEN MAKING HIS LANDING ON RUNWAY 14 AT SHREVEPORT REGIONAL AIRPORT.