Cessna 210 N884KM

Summary

On 21 January 2018 at about 07:30 local time, a Cessna 210 registered N884KM was involved in an accident near Sussex, New Jersey, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

21 January 2018 at 07:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Sussex, New Jersey, United States

Nearest airport

Sussex (FWN)

Coordinates

40.2986, -74.5201

Aircraft

Cessna 210

Registration

N884KM

Category

Airplane

Year built

1964

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Mount Pocono → Sussex

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Night

NTSB number

GAA18CA115

Nobody was injured.

The pilot’s inadvertent landing gear retraction during approach.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot of the retractable-landing-gear-equipped airplane reported that, during approach, the green landing gear extended light was illuminated. He further reported that "it [was] possible that [he] inadvertently cycled the landing gear back to a gear up position." The airplane landed gear up and was destroyed by postaccident fire. During a telephone interview with a National Transportation Safety Board investigator, the pilot reported that the landing gear handle and the trim wheel were next to each other, and it is probable that, when operating the trim wheel, he moved the landing gear handle. He added that that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.