# NTSB LAX84LA021: Cessna 210B, N9626X, Bakersfield, CA, October 20, 1983

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report
- Date: October 19, 1983, 19:32 local (Oct 20, 1983, 02:32 UTC)
- Place: Bakersfield, CA
- Coordinates: 35.540767, -118.91024 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=35.5408&lon=-118.9102&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- Status: Completed
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 24065
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=LAX84LA021
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/24065/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX84LA021

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- In flight collision with terrain/water, landing - flare/touchdown
  - landing gear,normal retraction/extension assembly - cracked (cause)
  - landing gear,normal retraction/extension assembly - failure,partial (cause)
  - hydraulic system - no pressure (cause)
  - fuel boost pump selector position - not possible, pilot in command
  - wheels up landing - performed, pilot in command

## 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](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N9626X), registered now, S/N 21057926, built 1962 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 210B
- Registry model: [Cessna 210B](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-210b) (registry code 2073410) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [Continental I0-470 series](https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-i0-470-series) (registry code 17027, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 21057926
- Airframe hours: 5573
- Engines: 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

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 59; 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)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB OAK68D0059](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/OAK68D0059), May 22, 1967: Cessna 210 (N9626X), Williams, CA, substantial damage

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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