- Date
- October 7, 1992, 18:20 local (23:20 UTC)
- Place
- Little Rock, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N37SCCessna 210G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921007044309A
- Case key
- 18593
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Probable cause
The partial failure of the landing gear retraction/extension assembly from restricted hydraulic fluid movement through a partially failed main landing gear uplock release valve.
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
After takeoff the pilot moved the landing gear handle to retract the gear. He did not get a gear up light. He then tried the gear down position and no light illuminated. Several flyby's were accomplished and ground personnel informed the pilot that the nose gear was down, the main gear were trailing, and all gear doors were down. The pilot cancelled his original flight plan and refiled VFR. Upon reaching the new destination, he communicated with technical personnel by radio in an effort to correct the malfunction. The airplane was landed approximately 1.5 hours later on runway 18. The main gear remained unlocked and collapsed upon touchdown. Inspection of the airplane revealed the main landing gear uplock release valve had failed. The valve would allow hydraulic pressure to unlock the gear, but would not allow hydraulic fluid to pass through the valve to the main actuators.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N37SC
- Reported as
- Cessna 210G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21058848
- Airframe hours
- 3,792
- Engine
- Continental IO-520A, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Richardson, Samuel M., doing business as Viking Industries, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Richardson, Samuel M.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 25, 1991 · 166 hours before
- Departed
- F43 · El Dorado, AR
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- LIT · Little Rock Muni, runway 18, 5,124 × 150 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
- 55
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,962 total · 1,628 in this make and model · 3,725 as pilot in command · 55 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 180° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 55 °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.