- Date
- August 30, 1995, 16:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sunriver, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5349ACessna 210
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 18, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19950830047399A
- Case key
- 42236
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Probable cause
The failure of the landing gear hydraulic drive motor.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
During the landing roll of a full-stop landing, all three of the aircraft's gear collapsed. It was later determined that the hydraulic pump drive motor had failed during the extension process. Although all three green gear-down indicator lights illuminated when the gear was extended, without the pump continuing to operate during the entire extension process, the gear did not reach the full down position, and the gear down-locks were not activated.
Factual narrative
On August 30, 1995, approximately 1600 Pacific daylight time, a Cessna 210, N5349A, experienced a collapse of all three gear during the landing roll at Sunriver, Oregon. The commercial pilot, who was the sole occupant, was not injured, but the aircraft sustained substantial damage. The personal pleasure flight, which departed the same airport earlier that evening, was being operated in visual meteorological conditions at the time of the accident. No flight plan had been filed, and there was no report of an ELT activation.
According to the FAA inspector who responded to the accident, the aircraft was on the landing roll for a full-stop landing when all three gear collapsed. As the gear collapsed, the aircraft settled to the runway, and the horizontal stabilizer sustained substantial damage. When interviewed by the FAA, the pilot said that at the time of the touchdown all three gear down indication lights were green.
It was later determined that during the gear extension process, the hydraulic pump motor had failed. Without the pump continuing to work during the entire extension process, the gear is not forced into the full down position, and the down-lock pins are not activated.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5349A
- Reported as
- Cessna 210
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21063382
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-P, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Turnidge, Donald L.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 27, 1994 · 74 hours before
- Departed
- S12 · Albany, OR
- Destination
- S21
- Airport
- S21 · Sunriver Airport, runway 36, 5,500 × 65 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 72
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,000 total · 1,800 in this make and model · 47 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.