Flight 269 · Cessna 210N
Cessna 210N · Accident: airframe, component or system failure en route
From Brooksville–Tampa Bay Regional Airport (BKV) to Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV)
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA01LA130
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
- Charter & commuter
- 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 210N
- 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
- N6585A
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Brooksville–Tampa Bay Regional Airport (BKV), Brooksville, FLTo Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV), Gainesville, FL
- 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 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
- 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
- En route · cruise
- 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
- Pilot in command › In-flight planning/decision, delayed
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The first two legs were uneventful. The pilot stated that the flight departed on the third leg and approximately 15 minutes into the flight, he noted a problem with the airplane's radios. He attempted to troubleshoot the radio problem and checked the ammeter which indicated a slight discharge. He turned on all the aircraft's lights to see if the ammeter would change; it did not. He then secured all electrical equipment with the exception of the No. 1 communication transceiver and transponder. He checked the circuit breakers and reset the alternator switch; with negative results. He was cleared to land via a light signal from the tower and lowered the landing gear electrically. He reported hearing the landing gear motor operate, felt a sensation that he equated to was the landing gear locking into position, and looked out and thought that the main landing gear were locked into position; he could not see the gear down and locked light due to sunlight. After touchdown, the main landing gear collapsed; the nose landing gear did not collapse. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that the "A+" electrical cable which is connected to the alternator and a terminal block on the firewall was separated from the wire connector at the terminal block on the firewall. Further examination determined that the cable was locally manufactured and appeared to be too short which did not allow for vibration.
Probable cause
The pilot's delay in securing all non-essential electrical equipment in-flight resulting in battery depletion before complete gear extension was accomplished using the normal system and subsequent collapse of the main landing gear. A contributing factor in the accident was the inadequate manufacture of an electrical cable by company maintenance personnel resulting in separation of one end of the cable in-flight.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA01LA130
- Event ID
- 20010501X00840
- Case number
- MIA01LA130
- 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, coordinates. 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: 5967205c94534889e5f97b8981ba49f99eda3a1d46ab525fba414b7b18630a76; retrieved 2026-09-18T16:14:09.963Z.