CHI94LA146 · Cessna P210N
Cessna P210N · Accident: gear not extended during landing
From Coleman A. Young Municipal Airport (DET) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI94LA146
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna P210N
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 210
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N7588K
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Coleman A. Young Municipal Airport (DET), Detroit, MITo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing · flare/touchdown
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Gear not extended
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Checklist, not followed
- Pilot in command › Gear extension, delayed
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT SAID HE HEARD A 'CLUNK' AS THE AIRPLANE TOUCHED DOWN. SHORTLY AFTER THIS THE AIRPLANE VEERED TO THE RIGHT WITH ITS RIGHT WING SETTLING DOWN. THE PILOT SAID HE DID NOT HEAR THE LANDING GEAR WARNING HORN SOUND WHEN HE CLOSED THE THROTTLE AS THE AIRPLANE CROSSED THE RUNWAY THRESHOLD. THE PILOT REPORTED OBSERVING TIRE SKID MARKS ON THE RUNWAY THAT WERE CLOSER TOGETHER THAN THE AIRPLANE'S MAIN LANDING GEAR TRACK AND 1,100 FEET LONG. THE ON-SCENE INVESTIGATION REVEALED MAIN LANDING GEAR TIRE SIDEWALL SCUFFING, A LANDING GEAR PUMP CIRCUIT BREAKER THAT WAS OPEN, AND A LANDING GEAR EXTENSION HANDLE THAT WAS IN THE DOWN POSITION. THE AIRPLANE'S LANDING GEAR WAS CYCLED FOUR TIMES AND FOUND TO SECURELY EXTEND EACH TIME. ONE EMERENCY EXTENSION WAS CONDUCTED AND THE LANDING GEAR EXTENDED SECURELY.
Probable cause
THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND NOT FOLLOWING THE AIRPLANE PRE-LANDING CHECKLIST AND THE DELAY IN LANDING GEAR EXTENSION.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI94LA146
- Event ID
- 20001206X01228
- Case number
- CHI94LA146
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: ed799d7c8b69fa28b635f9299ced0aaadac49e3de54e523032f36c5dd794e90f; retrieved 2026-09-23T01:08:10.024Z.