- Date
- July 13, 1989, 11:15 local (16:15 UTC)
- Place
- Okmulgee, OK
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N699PCCessna 421
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890713022279A
- Case key
- 22896
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Probable cause
Failure of the nose gear extension assembly and the pilot's improper precautionary landing procedures that included securing the engines prior to a point where a safe landing was assured.
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.
Airframe/component/system failure/malfunction
Landing gear,nose gear assembly - failure,totalCause
Gear extension - not possible
In flight collision with terrain/water
Powerplant - switched off
Precautionary landing - improperCause
Terrain condition - rough/uneven
Aircraft
- Registration
- N699PC
- Reported as
- Cessna 421
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 421-150
- Airframe hours
- 4,322
- Engine
- Continental GTSIO-520-D, 375 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Other work use · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Red Wing Products, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 22, 1989 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- 0F8 · Sand Springs, OK
- Airport
- OKM · Okmulgee Mun.
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
- 47
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,470 total · 894 in this make and model · 5,301 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F
- 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.