- Date
- November 3, 1984, 13:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Grayslake, IL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6709TCessna 310C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19841103062489A
- Case key
- 12948
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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 plt reported that the landing was normal but the acft settled to the rwy with the gear up while the selector was in the down position. Post accident examination failed to reveal any malfunction of the retraction/extension assembly.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6709T
- Reported as
- Cessna 310C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 39009
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-D, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Harold W. Stromsen, doing business as Thermal Engineered Products
- Registered owner
- Harold W. Stromsen
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 21, 1984 · 7 hours before
- Departed
- C81 · Grayslake, IL
- Airport
- C81 · Campbell, runway 24, 2,700 × 40 ft, macadam
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
- 60
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 6,000 total · 518 in this make and model · 6,000 as pilot in command · 36 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 41 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORD, 22 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.