# Incident 20181230021799I: Cessna T210L, Columbia, SC, December 30, 2018

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 30, 2018, 16:49 local time
- Place: Columbia, SC
- Airport: Columbia Metropolitan
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Approach
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 33.9382° N, 81.1230° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.9382&lon=-81.1230&mi=10
- Aircraft: N210CX, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N210CX) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna T210L (registry code 2073449, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-t210l) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental TSIO-520 series (registry code 17040, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-tsio-520-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA T210L
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 1,103 total, 648 in this make and model, 15 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20181230021799I

## Narrative

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

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EVENT: FAA FORM 8020-9

AIRCRAFT LOST HYDRAULIC PRESSURE AND LANDING GEAR DID NOT DEPLOY. AIRCRAFT FLEW BY TOWER TO CHECK IF GEAR WAS DOWN AND GEAR WAS CONFIRMED TO BE IN THE UP POSITION. AIRCRAFT DECLARED AN EMERGEJNCY AND LANDED BELLY UP.

PILOT STATEMENT:

DAMAGE TO AIRCRAFT ONLY, NO PERSONAL INJURY, IN GEAR UP LANDING ON RUNWAY 5 CAE 30 DECEMBER 2018. DAMAGE IS SCRAPES TO BELLY, LEFT AND RIGHT REAR GEAR DOORS, PROPELLOR TIPS, ANTENNAS ON BELLY.

ON APPROACH TO ILS RUNWAY 11, LOWERING GEAR HANDLE DID NOT ENGAGE PUMP, GEAR DID NOT LOWER, CHECKED CIRCUIT BREAKER, WAS IN. PULLED CIRCUIT BREAKER AND RESET, CYCLED GEAR HANDLE GEAR MOTOR DID NOT RUN, GEAR UP LIGHT STILL ON. FLEW PAST TOWER AND ASKED FOR VISUAL, TOWER SAID NO GEAR AT ALL. CLIMBED TO 2500 VECTORS FROM TOWER FOR TIME TO RESOLVE.

CHECKED GEAR FLUID FOUND NONE, ADDED ABOUT 20 OUNCES STILL NOT ON DIP STICK. PULLED CIRCUIT BREAKER, GEAR HANDLE DOWN, PUMPED HAND PUMP BUT NO RESISTANCE, CONTINUED PUMPING, GEAR UP LIGHT STILL ON. CHECKED DIP STICK NOTHING ON, PUT ENGINE OIL IN, DROPPED DIP STICK AND COULD NOT RETRIEVE. STILL NO PRESSURE ON HAND PUMP. PUT BREAKER IN AND GEAR LEVER UP THEN DOWN STILL NOTHING, PULLED BREAKER, HAND PUMPED AGAIN STILL NO PRESSURE.

VECTORED TO ILS RUNWAY 5 APPROACH, FULL FLAPS, 80 MPH ON SHORT FINAL, PULLED MIXTURE FULL OUT AT FLARE, PROP SLOWED BUT WINDMILLED, HELD OFF RUNWAY ELEVATOR FULL BACK AS TOUCHED DOWN.

DAUGHTER AND I EVACUATED WITHOUT INJURY, EMERGENCY PERSONNEL ALREADY AT PLANE AS WE EXITED. NO FIRE, NO EXINGUISHERS USED.

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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