- Date
- October 22, 1993, 14:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- Monte Vista, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9653TCessna 210
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 1, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19931022047239A
- Case key
- 18966
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Probable cause
Failure by the pilot in command to follow procedures and directives to lower the landing gear prior to 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.
Analysis
The pilot failed to lower the landing gear and the airplane landed with the landing gear in the up position.
Factual narrative
On October 22, 1993, at 1415 mountain daylight time, a Cessna 210, N9653T, landed gear up at the Monte Vista Airport, Monte Vista, Colorado. The pilot and his passenger were not injured and the aircraft sustained substantial damage. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for this flight which departed Del Norte, Colorado, at 1400.
The pilot reported the accident on November 8, 1993, and during that conversation and on NTSB Form 6120.1/2, he stated that he forgot to lower the landing gear.
At the request of the Investigator In Charge, the damage was surveyed by a local mechanic and from his evaluation, damage was determined to be substantial. The damage consisted of buckling of lower airframe structural components, wrinkling of both wings, and damage to the horizontal stabilizer. No system failure or malfunction could be identified.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9653T
- Reported as
- Cessna 210
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 57453
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-S, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Anderson, Robert W.
- Registered owner
- Anderson Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 1993
- Departed
- 8V1 · Del Norte, CO
- Airport
- MVI · Monte Vista Municipal, runway 2, 6,000 × 60 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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,430 total · 183 in this make and model · 1,385 as pilot in command · 68 in the last 90 days · 33 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.