- Date
- September 3, 1994, 12:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Paris, ID
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3759YCessna 210D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 29, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940903025869A
- Case key
- 42017
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
An inadvertent wheels up landing.
Analysis
The pilot stated that he made a gear up landing when he failed to extend the landing gear. The airplane skidded to a stop on the runway.
Factual narrative
On September 3, 1994, approximately 1200 hours mountain daylight time (mdt), a Cessna 210D, N3759Y, registered to Randolph Flyers, and being flown by Kenneth R. Brown, a private pilot, was substantially damaged during a gear up landing on runway 10 at the Bear Lake County Airport, Paris, Idaho. The pilot, three passengers and one child were uninjured. Visual meteorological conditions existed and no flight plan had been filed. The local flight, which was personal in nature, was to have been operated in accordance with 14CFR91.
In a written statement, the pilot reported that he landed at the Bear Lake Airport to pick up his passengers for a local flight of the area. When the flight returned for landing, the pilot reported that he "failed to lower the landing gear." The airplane landed gear up and skidded to a stop on the runway.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3759Y
- Reported as
- Cessna 210D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21058259
- Airframe hours
- 4,480
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-A, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Randolph Flyers
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 13, 1993 · 20 hours before
- Airport
- 1U7 · Bear Lake Co., runway 10, 5,730 × 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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,460 total · 2,347 in this make and model · 3,460 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 17 knots, gusting 22
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PIH, 69 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.