- Date
- September 25, 2020, 12:38 local (19:38 UTC)
- Place
- Bridgeport, CA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N300JSCessna T210
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR go-around: Miscellaneous/other
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Case key
- 102066
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Probable cause
An inadvertent retraction of the flaps during a go-around by the pilot-rated passenger, which caused the airplane to settle onto the runway with the landing gear retracted.
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, during landing, he elected to go-around because of an overshoot of final and an unstable approach. The pilot applied full power, raised the landing gear, and initiated a climb out. At the same time, the pilot-rated passenger, inadvertently raised the flaps prematurely, which caused the airplane to settle onto the runway with the landing gear retracted. Once the propeller contacted the runway surface, the airplane veered off to the right of the runway and sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N300JS
- Reported as
- Cessna T210 (M)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21062717
- Built
- 1978
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520 Series, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Nor Cal Perlite Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- CCR · Concord, CA
- Destination
- BIH · Bishop, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR/IFR
- Airport
- O57 · Bryant Field, runway 16, 3,854 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Unknown
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 79
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 12, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 21,000 total · 485 in this make and model · 19,000 as pilot in command · 80 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot-rated passenger
- Injuries
- None
- Seat
- Right
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 12 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.20 inHg
- Observed at
- KBAN, 15 nm away
- METAR
- KBAN 252052Z AUTO 23022G31KT 10SM CLR 07/M04 A3005 RMK AO2 PK WND 24039/2009 SLP179 60000 T00721039 56033 $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 20, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.5 MB in all.