SEA00LA090 · Cessna T210M
Cessna T210M · Accident: airframe, component or system failure on approach
From Aberdeen Municipal Airport (U36) to Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field (BOI)
Event
- NTSB case
- SEA00LA090
- 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 T210M
- 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
- N761VZ
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Aberdeen Municipal Airport (U36), Aberdeen, IDTo Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field (BOI)
- 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
- Approach
- 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
- Airframe, component or system failure
- 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
- Hydraulic system, line › Deteriorated
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
Approaching his destination, the pilot lowered the landing gear of the Cessna T210M, and was then advised by the tower that the gear did not appear to be locked down. After a flyby confirming the right main landing gear only partially extended, the pilot attempted corrective action without success. He then returned to the airport and executed a power-off, full flaps landing to runway 28L. During the landing roll, the right gear collapsed and the right horizontal stabilizer was damaged. Post-crash examination revealed that the hydraulic hose between the system and the nose gear door actuator had deteriorated allowing a total hydraulic fluid loss and rendering the gear system inoperable.
Probable cause
The deterioration and subsequent leakage of a hydraulic line which resulted in the total loss of hydraulic fluid and the inability of the pilot to extend the landing gear into the locked position.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record SEA00LA090
- Event ID
- 20001212X21124
- Case number
- SEA00LA090
- 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: 256489b9b2e969b03a6018a5656b47926062fca676ad355241b61ccf3b6a0866; retrieved 2026-09-22T12:52:16.743Z.