- Date
- May 12, 1989, 11:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Monterey, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7568NCessna T210N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890512011399A
- Case key
- 26402
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Probable cause
The pilots improper use of the checklist when his attention was diverted.
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
At the end of a pleasure flight, the pilot was distracted during the prelanding checklist and failed to extend the landing gear before touchdown. The distraction was the result of difficulty in contacting the tower, an interruption in doing the checklist, and dropping the list to the floor of the cockpit.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7568N
- Reported as
- Cessna T210N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21063235
- Airframe hours
- 1,373
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520R, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Huggs, Garriott, Ming
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- BFL · Bakersifeld, CA
- Airport
- MRY · Monterey, runway 28, 6,597 × 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
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,365 total · 605 in this make and model · 1,170 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MRY
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N7568N · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.