- Date
- June 14, 2013, 09:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Salmon, ID
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6993NCessna T210N
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 5, 2013
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20130614009519A
- Case key
- 87201
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Probable cause
The pilot's decision to land on a wet grass airstrip, which resulted in a main landing gear collapse after a collision with rough terrain.
Findings · 3
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 during the landing rollout on the wet grass runway, the left main landing gear collapsed after it struck a mud hole. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The left elevator and horizontal stabilizer were substantially damaged.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that during the landing rollout on the wet grass runway, the left main landing gear collapsed after it struck a mud hole. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The left elevator and horizontal stabilizer were substantially damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6993N
- Reported as
- Cessna T210N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21063202
- Airframe hours
- 6,702
- Engine
- Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Scott Patrick, doing business as SP Aircraft
- Registered owner
- Andrew and Bonnie Patrick
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 21, 2013 · 33 hours before
- Departed
- ID74 · Cascade, ID
- Destination
- 12ID · Salmon, ID
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- 12ID · Flying B Ranch Landing Strip, runway 18, 2,000 × 100 ft, gravel
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
- 28
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 31, 2013
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,473 total · 1,823 in this make and model · 93 in the last 90 days · 58 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 15, 2013, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 979 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.
Other investigations on N6993N · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.