- Date
- June 5, 1990, 16:40 local (23:40 UTC)
- Place
- Albany, OR
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6647BCessna 310B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 20, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900605018949A
- Case key
- 41207
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear before landing, when he became distracted by a change in his normal routine.
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 was distracted by an erratically operating powerplant and decided to make a precautionary landing at Albany, OR. He forgot that he had retracted the landing gear after aborting an approach to another airport and did not ensure the landing gear was extended prior to landing at Albany.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6647B
- Reported as
- Cessna 310B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 35747
- Engine
- Continental O-470-M, 240 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- John E. Sharkey
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- COE · Coeur D' Alene, ID
- Destination
- EUG · Eugene, OR
- Airport
- S12 · Albany, runway 16, 3,000 × 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
- 48
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 4,950 total · 25 in this make and model · 4,950 as pilot in command · 45 in the last 90 days · 43 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 14,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EUG, 32 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.