- Date
- March 28, 1987, 09:10 local (14:10 UTC)
- Place
- Venice, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3304XCessna 310L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870328007639A
- Case key
- 31884
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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 left main landing gear collapsed during the landing roll after the plt inadvertently retracted the landing gear instead of the flaps. The pilot left the scene of the accident and his identity is unknown.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3304X
- Reported as
- Cessna 310L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310L-0154
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-V, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Unknown
- Registered owner
- Dick Schuster
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- VRO · Vero Beach, FL
- Airport
- VNC · Venice Municipal, runway 13, 5,000 × 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
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,300 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FMY, 44 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.