- Date
- May 29, 1989, 21:00 local (May 30, 1989, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Wheeling, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4763PCessna P210N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report June 18, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890529013289A
- Case key
- 14358
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to extend the landing gear, which resulted in a wheels-up landing.
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.
Gear not extended
Light condition - dark night
Gear extension - not performedCause
Wheels up landing - inadvertentCause
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4763P
- Reported as
- Cessna P210N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- P21000100
- Airframe hours
- 1,395
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Crain, William P.
- Registered owner
- Crain, William P.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 28, 1988 · 174 hours before
- Departed
- C73 · Dixon, IL
- Destination
- PWK
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- PWK · Palwaukee, runway 16, 5,137 × 100 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,166 total · 160 in this make and model · 2,166 as pilot in command · 26 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 200° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.