- Date
- September 18, 1992, 20:30 local (Sep 19, 1992, 01:30 UTC)
- Place
- Spring, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N732JFCessna T210L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 18383
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Probable cause
The pilot under instruction failure to follow the landing checklist and the instructor pilot's inadequate supervision. A factor was the overheated landing gear motor.
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 pilot under instruction was undergoing training to upgrade to PIC status in the type of airplane. The airplane remained in closed traffic to practice different type of approaches. On the sixth and final landing, the crew was simulating a short field landing over a simulated 50 foot barrier. The landing gear circuit breaker popped when the gear was in transit during extension due to an overheated landing gear motor. The crew failed to verify the position of the partially extended landing gear and the landing gear collapsed on touchdown.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N732JF
- Reported as
- Cessna T210L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21061543
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-H4B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Public aircraft · Part 91
- Operator
- United States Customs
- Registered owner
- United States Customs
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · September 9, 1992 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- DWH
- Destination
- DWH
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- DWH · David W. Hooks, runway 17, 7,000 × 100 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
- 27
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 4,700 total · 400 in this make and model · 4,400 as pilot in command · 165 in the last 90 days · 95 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 90° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DWH, 1 nm away