- Date
- March 8, 1992, 19:45 local (Mar 9, 1992, 03:45 UTC)
- Place
- Livermore, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5885FCessna 210G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920308007479A
- Case key
- 27573
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Probable cause
The failure of the left main landing gear saddle.
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 said the flight was inbound for landing when he experienced difficulty in extending the landing gear. The aircraft landed on the runway, the left main landing gear collapsed and the aircraft slid into a runway light structure. Post accident inspection of the aircraft by FAA airworthiness inspectors revealed that the main landing gear saddle casting had failed, leaving the left main landing gear without support. The landing gear saddle structure on this aircraft is the subject of an airworthiness directive which requires repetitive inspections for cracks. The maintenance records revealed that the AD had been complied with on the last annual inspection, 42 hours and 3 months prior to the accident. The FAA inspector noted that the saddle casting had abundant evidence of a recent die penetrant inspection.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5885F
- Reported as
- Cessna 210G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 210G58885
- Airframe hours
- 3,347
- Engine
- Continental IO-520A, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Theodore F. Fellrath
- Registered owner
- Theodore F. Fellrath
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 2, 1991 · 42 hours before
- Departed
- O36 · Tracy, CA
- Airport
- LVK · Livermore Municipal, runway 25, 5,255 × 100 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
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,284 total · 976 in this make and model · 1,284 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 250° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 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.