ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 353737
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| Date: | Friday 25 September 1998 |
| Time: | 22:56 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 210L |
| Owner/operator: | Flight Express |
| Registration: | N300EW |
| MSN: | 21061219 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2385 hours |
| Engine model: | Continental IO520-L7B |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Orlando, FL -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | (KORL) |
| Saint Augustine, FL | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
According to the pilot, an unsafe landing gear indication occurred prior to landing at her destination. The pilot then stuck her head out of the airplanes window to visually inspect the landing gear, allowing her eye glasses to be blown off. After she talked with her company, it was decided that she return to Orlando, where there was better maintenance and other facilities to deal with the problem. Compounding the landing gear problem was the fact that the pilot had to make a night landing without her prescribed eyeglasses. Upon landing the main gear collapsed. The airplane skidded and did a 180-degree turn on the runway, coming to rest in a nose high attitude, with the weight of the airplane on the horizontal stabilizer. This resulted in substantial damage to the airplane. The pilot was not injured. A post crash inspection of the airplane, by company maintenance personnel, revealed a crack in the right main landing gear actuator and the power pack sequencing valve was operating incorrectly.
Probable Cause: A 6-8 inch crack on the right main landing gear strut, which allowed the hydraulic fluid to escape from the system, along with a power pack sequencing valve failure which allowed the main landing gear to fold on landing. A factor in the accident was the pilots execution of a night landing without her prescribed eye glasses.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ATL98LA130
History of this aircraft
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| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 10-Mar-2024 09:58 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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