# Incident 20030205001249I: Cessna 310P, Bessemer, AL, February 5, 2003

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 5, 2003, 14:15 local time
- Place: Bessemer, AL
- Airport: Bessemer Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 33.3129° N, 86.9259° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at Bessemer Airport (EKY), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.3129&lon=-86.9259&mi=10
- Aircraft: N5817M, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N5817M) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 310P (registry code 2074238, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-310p) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental I0-470 series (registry code 17027, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-i0-470-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 310P
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 2,300 total, 10 in this make and model, 10 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20030205001249I

## Narrative

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

(-23) PILOT STATED: WHILE TAXING TO RUNWAY LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED, INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFT REVEALED THAT THE GEAR DOWN LOCK HAD BROKEN.

## Other reports on N5817M (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 19990311020359I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19990311020359I), Mar 11, 1999: Cessna 310P (N5817M), Shreveport, LA, Minor damage. On March 11, 1999, at 1821 central standard time, a Cessna, model CE-310-P, N5817M, operated by air carrier's, inc. (dkba), experienced an unsafe nose gear…

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.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.