- Date
- April 14, 2013, 22:00 local (Apr 15, 2013, 04:00 UTC)
- Place
- Caldwell, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9685XCessna 210B
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 2013
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20130414005559A
- Case key
- 86648
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to lower the landing gear, which resulted in a gear-up hard landing.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that when the airplane was on short final for the nighttime landing, he realized that he had forgotten to put the airplane’s landing gear in the down position. He added full power for a go-around; however, the airplane impacted the runway hard and skidded to a stop. The pilot exited the airplane, and a postimpact fire ensued. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and right wing. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that while on short final for the nighttime landing he realized that he had forgotten to put the airplane’s landing gear in the down position. He added full power for a go-around, however the airplane suddenly impacted the runway hard and skidded to a stop. The pilot exited the airplane as a post-crash fire ensued. During the accident sequence, the airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and right wing. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9685X
- Reported as
- Cessna 210B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21057985
- Airframe hours
- 3,423
- Engine
- Continential Motors IO-470 Series, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- McCrory Co LLC
- Registered owner
- McCrory Co LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 15, 2013 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- EUL · Caldwell, ID
- Destination
- EUL · Caldwell, ID
- Airport
- EUL · Caldwell Industrial Airport, runway 30, 5,500 × 100 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
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 28, 2011
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 600 total · 415 in this make and model · 600 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 320° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.77 inHg
- Observed at
- EUL
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 5, 2013, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 619 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.