CEN24LA018 · Cessna 210B
Cessna 210B · Accident: system/component malfunction/failure (non-power) during takeoff
From Pueblo Memorial Airport (KPUB) to La Junta Municipal Airport (KLHX)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN24LA018
- 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 210B
- 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
- N9597X
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Pueblo Memorial Airport (KPUB), Pueblo, COTo La Junta Municipal Airport (KLHX), La Junta, CO
- Aircraft age
- About 61 years (built 1962)
- 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
- Takeoff
- Defining eventThe 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
- System/component malfunction/failure (non-power)
- 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
- Aircraft › Aircraft systems
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The pilot reported that during landing gear retraction after takeoff, he heard a “pop” from the rear cockpit area, and the landing gear retraction handle did not return to the center position as expected. He attempted to extend the landing gear, but they would not extend. He performed the emergency extension procedures; the landing gear doors opened, and the landing gear came out of their respective landing gear wells. However, only the nose landing gear locked into the down position, and the main landing gear remained partially extended. During the landing, the airplane skidded to a stop and incurred substantial damage to the left horizontal stabilizer and elevator. Postaccident examination of the airplane found the right hydraulic actuator had a fatigue crack that initiated along the retaining ring groove of the actuator that rendered the actuator inoperable and resulted in a loss of hydraulic fluid from the system. Due to the loss of fluid, neither the primary system nor the emergency system could lower and lock all the landing gear in place for landing.
Probable cause
The fatigue failure of the right main landing gear hydraulic actuator, which resulted in a loss of hydraulic fluid that prevented the pilot from lowering the landing gear to the fully extended position.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN24LA018
- Event ID
- 20231023193285
- Case number
- CEN24LA018
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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, cause areas. 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: 1c3984d1fb1ddacb6317539177e7e1bc7d92835a84c82e0e2bc223cc91e0185e; retrieved 2026-09-16T18:14:23.797Z.