- Date
- March 26, 1982, 15:15 local (23:15 UTC)
- Place
- Yuba City, CA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N69646Cessna 310Q
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 26, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820326006559A
- Case key
- 73114
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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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.
In flight collision with terrain/water
Gear extension - not performedCause
Analysis
The pilot reported that he forgot to put the gear down before landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N69646
- Reported as
- Cessna 310Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310Q0832
- Airframe hours
- 2,250
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-V, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Comet Airways Incorporated
- Registered owner
- Ross D Scott
- Departed
- VIS · Visalia, CA
- Destination
- O52 · Yuba City, CA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 052 · Sutter County, runway 17, 3,040 × 75 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
- 60
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 10,369 total · 1,520 in this make and model · 9,899 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 138 °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.