- Date
- April 9, 1993, 14:16 local (21:16 UTC)
- Place
- Groveland, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3532GCessna T310R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930409009059A
- Case key
- 28364
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to follow the airplane's checklist which resulted in an inadvertent gear up landing.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
A Cessna T310R landed gear up on the runway. The pilot entered the airport traffic pattern midway on the downwind leg and forgot to extend the landing gear. The pilot did not recall hearing the airplane's gear warning horn. As the airplane propellers struck the ground, the pilot attempted to go around but without success. The pilot reported that the airplane did not experience any mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane before the accident.
Factual narrative
On April 9, 1993, at 1416 hours Pacific daylight time, a Cessna T310R, N3532G, landed gear up on Runway 27 at the Pine Mountain Lake Airport, Groveland, California. The pilot was completing a visual flight rules personal flight. The airplane, registered to and operated by the pilot, sustained substantial damage. The certificated private pilot and passenger were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time. The flight originated at the Nut Tree Airport, Vacaville, California, at about 1345 hours.
The pilot indicated during a telephone interview that he entered the airport traffic pattern midway on the downwind leg and forgot to extend the landing gear. The pilot did not recall hearing the airplane's gear warning horn. As the airplane propellers struck the ground, the pilot attempted to go around. The airplane veered off the runway before coming to a stop.
The pilot stated on his pilot accident report that there were no mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane before the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3532G
- Reported as
- Cessna T310R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0863
- Airframe hours
- 1,915
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Fricke, Louis E.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 5, 1992 · 93 hours before
- Departed
- O45 · Vacaville, CA
- Airport
- Q68 · Pine Mountain Lake, runway 27, 3,625 × 50 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
- 60
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,861 total · 1,338 in this make and model · 2,791 as pilot in command · 37 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SCK, 50 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.