# Incident 20010416012569I: Cessna 310I, St Louis, MO, April 16, 2001

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 16, 2001, 12:30 local time
- Place: St Louis, MO
- Airport: Spirit Of St Louis Airport
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 38.6621° N, 90.6520° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS (SUS), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.6621&lon=-90.6520&mi=10
- Aircraft: N5330J, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N5330J) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 310I (registry code 2074224, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-310i) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 310I
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 2,055 total, 1,400 in this make and model, 23 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20010416012569I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) UPON APPROACH FOR LANDING AT SUS, COULD NOT GET NLG DOWN AND LOCKED LIGHT. TOWER ADVISED PILOT THAT NLG DID NOT APPEAR TO BE DOWN.  PILOT CYCLED GEAR AND HEARD LOUD NOISE IN NLG AREA.  TOWERTHEN ADVISED PILOT THAT NLG WAS PARTIALLY DOWN.  LANDED ON RWY 26R. NLG COLLAPSED ON LANDING.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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