Cessna 210 N9776Y

Summary

On 12 July 2024 at about 17:30 local time, a Cessna 210 registered N9776Y was involved in an accident near Mount Vernon, Illinois, 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

12 July 2024 at 17:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Mount Vernon, Illinois, United States

Nearest airport

Mount Vernon (MVN)

Coordinates

38.3234, -88.8585

Aircraft

Cessna 210

Registration

N9776Y

Category

Airplane

Year built

1981

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Henderson → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CEN24LA264

Nobody was injured.

The pilot’s failure to lower the landing gear, resulting in a wheel up landing. Contributing to the accident was the intermittent warning horn which likely did not sound to warn the pilot about the misconfigured landing gear.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot reported that as the airplane approached the airport to land, he found that the runway he had planned to land on was closed, so he maneuvered to land on an open runway. He forgot to extend the landing gear and wheels up landed the airplane on its belly. The airplane skidded on its belly to a stop, which resulted in substantial damage to the primary structure of the underside of fuselage. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures that contributed to the accident, but also reported that neither he nor the passenger heard the landing gear warning horn during the approach. During the functional testing of the landing gear system, the landing gear warning horn was found to be intermittent.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.