- Date
- February 12, 1993, 11:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Fullerton, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9668TCessna 210
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 15, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930212002409A
- Case key
- 27921
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to follow the checklist. A factor relating to this accident was the misadjustment of the landing gear locking mechanism which caused intermittent operation.
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 airplane landed with the right main landing gear in the retracted position. The pilot failed to ascertain that all of the landing gears were fully extended before attempting the landing. Inspection of the landing gear system disclosed that the landing gear uplock was not properly adjusted and that the right main landing gear would intermittently fail to extend. The Cessna service manual reveals that the landing gear light will not illuminate unless all landing gears are in the extended and locked position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9668T
- Reported as
- Cessna 210
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 57468
- Airframe hours
- 2,700
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-E, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Finn, Donald L.
- Registered owner
- Finn, Donald L.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 25, 1992 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- SMO · Santa Monica, CA
- Airport
- FUL · Fullerton, runway 24, 3,121 × 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,470 total · 100 in this make and model · 2,200 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FUL, 1 nm away
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 N9668T · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.