- Date
- March 20, 1991, 18:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Metter, GA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N28CECessna 210G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910320006589A
- Case key
- 8385
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear when his attention was diverted by radio conversation.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot & a friend, also a pilot, were on a local personal flight. The friend was flying the airplane from the right seat. As they approached the airport for landing the pilot told his friend to slow the airplane to gear extension speed. He then became distracted by radio conversation with another pilot who had just landed but had not cleared the runway. The pilot said he assumed that the friend would lower the landing gear. Too late, the pilot noted that the gear had not been extended. The airplane slid to a stop and the pilots saw fire coming from under the engine. The airplane burned before the local fire department could respond.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N28CE
- Reported as
- Cessna 210G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21058935
- Engine
- Continental IO-520A, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Carper, Terry C.
- Registered owner
- Carper, Terry C.
- Departed
- Bulloch County, GA
- Airport
- MHP · Metter, runway 28, 3,600 × 75 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 9,639 total · 250 in this make and model · 8,500 as pilot in command · 36 in the last 90 days · 24 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SAV, 43 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.