ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 296364
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| Date: | Wednesday 4 December 2002 |
| Time: | 17:32 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 210M |
| Owner/operator: | Flight Express Inc |
| Registration: | N7660E |
| MSN: | 21062692 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 7542 hours |
| Engine model: | Teledyne Continental IO 520-L |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | CINCINNATI, Ohio -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Paducah-Barkley Regional Airport, KY (PAH/KPAH) |
| Owensboro-Daviess County Airport, KY (OWB/KOWB) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
When the airline transport pilot extended the landing gear in preparation to land, his right leg was sprayed with hydraulic fluid and the gear down-and-locked light did not illuminate. The pilot aborted the landing and circled west of the airport. He made several attempts to lower the gear, but each attempt was unsuccessful. The pilot then flew by the control tower and was advised that the gear were up. He then contacted his company's dispatch personnel, and a decision was made to fly to another airport where company maintenance personnel were based. Prior to landing, the pilot once again flew by the tower, and was informed that the nose gear appeared to be down, but both main landing gear were dangling. The pilot then completed the emergency landing checklist, secured the engine, and landed. During the landing, the airplane veered off the right side of the runway. Examination of the airplane revealed that the left side, landing gear down hydraulic line installed from the gear handle to the gear power pack was ruptured due to repeated contact with the aileron cable by control wheel movement. The loss of hydraulic fluid would have also rendered the emergency landing gear hand pump useless.
Probable Cause: Rupture of the left side, landing gear down hydraulic line due to repeated contact with the aileron cable, which resulted in a loss of hydraulic pressure, a partial extension of the main landing gear, and the inability to utilize the landing gear hand pump.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB IAD03LA021
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 27 September 1995 | N7660E | General Air Ambulance Inc | 0 | Dodge City, KS | |
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| 12 October 2011 | N7660E | Flight Express Inc. | 0 | Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport - KMKC, MO | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 13-Oct-2022 19:45 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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