Cessna 210D N3728Y

Summary

On 9 November 2003 at about 20:19 local time, a Cessna 210D registered N3728Y was involved in an accident near Millington, Tennessee, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

9 November 2003 at 20:19

Classification

Accident

Location

Millington, Tennessee, United States

Nearest airport

Millington Municipal (NQA)

Coordinates

35.3611, -89.8725

Aircraft

Cessna 210D

Registration

N3728Y

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Dyersburg → Millington

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ATL04LA035

Nobody was injured.

The malfunction of the main hydraulic landing gear system actuator resulting in an emergency gear up landing.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot stated that he was conducting touch and go landings at an airport when he observed an unsafe landing gear indication after attempting to lower the landing gear. The emergency gear extension checklist was followed and the landing gear would not come down. He diverted to another airport and contacted the control tower. A fly-by was requested and the controller informed the pilot that the nose gear was extended, however the main landing gear was not extended. The pilot entered the traffic pattern and made an emergency landing to the sod area left of runway 04. The landing gear actuator was forwarded to an authorized repair station for further examination. The examination revealed the actuator was in the partially extended position during the gear up landing. The repair station confirmed the hydraulic pump was functioning, and the landing gear actuator was in the partially extended position during the gear up landing. The teardown concluded, "It is our professional opinion, based on non-teardown of the unit that the power pack would have functioned and sequenced as designed; however, there is serious question as to the ability of the main gear actuators to overcome the flight loads if operated at 60 percent (fluctuating between 750 psi and 900 psi) of designed system pressure (required to be at 1950 plus or minus 50 psi.")

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.