- Date
- October 19, 1983, 19:32 local (Oct 20, 1983, 02:32 UTC)
- Place
- Bakersfield, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9626XCessna 210B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 24065
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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.
Analysis
The plt was unable to lower all three gear using normal & emergency proceduces. The acft landed with only the nose & left main gear extended. The right main landing gear actuator assembly was found cracked & ruputred, resulting in a lossof hydraulic pressure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9626X
- Reported as
- Cessna 210B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21057926
- Airframe hours
- 5,573
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-S, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Gardiner W. Spring, Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 4, 1983 · 170 hours before
- Departed
- SMF · Sacramento, CA
- Airport
- BFL · Meadows, runway 30R, 6,700 × 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
- 59
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,240 total · 860 in this make and model · 2,140 as pilot in command · 85 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 20° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BFL
Other investigations on N9626X · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.