- Date
- December 25, 2009, 11:48 local (17:48 UTC)
- Place
- Robert Lee, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9499XCessna 210A
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 20, 2010
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20091225053719A
- Case key
- 75210
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The collapse of the right main landing gear during landing for unknown reasons.
Findings · 1
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
In preparation to land his single-engine airplane, the pilot extended the landing gear and visually confirmed that all three gear were down and locked and all three gear-down lights were illuminated. Upon landing, the right main gear collapsed and the airplane veered off the side of the runway. A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that the left and right main landing gear down-locks were not fully engaging the gear. A review of photographs taken at the accident site revealed large clumps of grass protruding from the runway surface. It is possible that the right main landing gear may have struck one of these clumps during landing and knocked it out of the position.
Factual narrative
On December 25, 2009, at 1148 central standard time, N9499X, a Cessna 210 single-engine airplane, went off the side of the runway at Robert Lee Airport (54F), Robert Lee, Texas, after the right main landing gear collapsed on landing. The commercial pilot and the passenger were not injured. The airplane was registered to and operated by the pilot. No flight plan was filed and visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the personal flight conducted under 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. The pilot reported that he had visually confirmed that the landing gear was extended and the all three gear-down lights were "in the green." After the airplane touched down on the runway, the right wing dropped, and the airplane veered off the right side of the runway onto the grass. The airplane sustained damage to the right horizontal stabilizer, elevator, and the right wing tip. The right main landing gear was found partially extended and pushed up into the wheel well. Examination of the airplane by an airframe and mechanic revealed that the left and right main landing gear were not fully engaging the landing gear. There were no obvious signs that the main landing gear system had any recent maintenance or any of the components were damaged. A review of the airframe logbooks did not reveal any recent maintenance to the A review of photographs taken at the accident site revealed large clumps of grass protruding from the runway surface.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9499X
- Reported as
- Cessna 210A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21057799
- Airframe hours
- 3,664
- Engine
- Continental IO-470 Series, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Price James F Jr
- Registered owner
- Price James F Jr
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 16, 2009
- Departed
- KTFP · Ingleside, TX
- Destination
- 54F · Robert Lee, TX
- Airport
- 54F · Robert Lee Airport, runway 17, 4,450 × 50 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
- 52
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 30, 2009
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 400 total · 208 in this make and model · 357 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.01 inHg
- Observed at
- SJT, 27 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 25, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.0 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.