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Date: | Wednesday 25 April 2012 |
Time: | 13:39 UTC |
Type: | Cessna 310R |
Owner/operator: | Vintage Aero Inc. |
Registration: | N2MB |
MSN: | 310R1357 |
Year of manufacture: | 1978 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Minor |
Location: | St. Lucie County International Airport - KFPR, Fort Pierce, FL -
United States of America
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | KFPR |
Confidence Rating: | Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Narrative:The pilot of a Cessna 310R landed with the landing gear retracted at St. Lucie County International Airport - KFPR, Fort Pierce, Florida.
After many attemps the landing gear still failed to deploy and the pilot decided to make a controlled belly landing, resulting in relative minor damage.
Both occupants escaped unhurt.
Sources:
https://www.faa.gov/data_research/accident_incident/preliminary_data/events01/media/04_2MB.txt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKP4A3U0C9s (video of the incident)
http://www.airport-data.com/images/aircraft/small/000/615/615829.jpg (photo)
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Apr-2012 23:40 |
vvvww |
Added |
27-Apr-2012 01:48 |
RobertMB |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
27-Apr-2012 01:50 |
RobertMB |
Updated [Narrative] |