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CEN24LA264

2024-07-12 · Mount Vernon, Illinois, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Airport MVN

Current FAA registration · N9776Y

Make / Model
CESSNA 210N
Year of manufacture
1981 · 43 years old at event
Engine
CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)
Seats / Engines
6 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19811120
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S ADA0E7

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Probable cause & findings

The pilot’s failure to lower the landing gear, resulting in a wheel up landing. Contributing to the accident was the intermittent warning horn which likely did not sound to warn the pilot about the misconfigured landing gear.

Factual narrative

The pilot reported that as the airplane approached the airport to land, he found that the runway he had planned to land on was closed, so he maneuvered to land on an open runway. He forgot to extend the landing gear and wheels up landed the airplane on its belly. The airplane skidded on its belly to a stop, which resulted in substantial damage to the primary structure of the underside of fuselage. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures that contributed to the accident, but also reported that neither he nor the passenger heard the landing gear warning horn during the approach. During the functional testing of the landing gear system, the landing gear warning horn was found to be intermittent. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database Retrieved: 2026-02-12

NTSB Findings

FAA avdata. C = Cause, F = Factor.

  • — Personnel issues-Task performance-Use of equip/info-Use of equip/system-Pilot
  • — Aircraft-Aircraft systems-Landing gear system-Gear position and warning-Malfunction

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_2024_CEN24LA264.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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