- Date
- October 5, 2021, 14:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Columbia, SC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6318BCessna 210
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20211005022949A
- Case key
- 104059
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
A failure of the landing gear hydraulic power pack for reasons that could not be determined.
Findings · 2
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
The pilot reported that the gear unsafe light was intermittent while he taxied before departure. After a discussion with his mechanic, the pilot decided to fly the airplane home for repairs. During the return flight, the gear unsafe light again illuminated intermittently. The landing gear locked light illuminated when he lowered the airplane’s landing gear, although there were two transient and momentary “chirps” of the landing gear warning system. The pilot visually confirmed that the main landing gear were down; however, during the subsequent landing roll, the right landing gear collapsed. The airplane tipped to the right, which resulted in damage to the right elevator and horizontal stabilizer. A follow-up examination of the landing gear hydraulic power pack revealed that the hydraulic pump operated intermittently.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6318B
- Reported as
- Cessna 210 (M)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21062745
- Built
- 1978
- Airframe hours
- 4,768
- Engine
- Continental IO 520L46B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Centurion Associates 2 LLC
- Registered owner
- Centurion Associates 2 LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 15, 2021 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- MYR · Myrtle Beach, SC
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- CUB · Jim Hamilton L B Owens, runway 13, 5,011 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Onboard weather, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display
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
- 64
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 20, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 2,976 total · 674 in this make and model · 2,803 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.08 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- CUB
- METAR
- METAR KCUB 051753Z AUTO VRB04KT 10SM SCT110 29/17 A3008 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT SE AND S SLP184 T02890167 10300 20200 58015=
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 6, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.4 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.