Hooks Airport, Spring TX, 2:15 PM today
Cessna 210-L
Landing gear malfunction.
Gear down, but would not idicate in lock position.
Main gear collapsed on touchdown. Nose gear remained down and locked.
Pilot walked away with no injuries.

Photo is available.

Tom Hughes
Tomball, TX

Glad nobody was hurt...

Was this one of the models that had the recurring main gear saddle problems?

Tom Hughes wrote:

> Hooks Airport, Spring TX, 2:15 PM today
> Cessna 210-L
> Landing gear malfunction.
> Gear down, but would not idicate in lock position.
> Main gear collapsed on touchdown. Nose gear remained down and locked.
> Pilot walked away with no injuries.
>
> Photo is available.
>
> Tom Hughes
> Tomball, TX
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> Tom Hughes wrote:
>
> > Hooks Airport, Spring TX, 2:15 PM today
> > Cessna 210-L
> > Landing gear malfunction.
> > Gear down, but would not idicate in lock position.
> > Main gear collapsed on touchdown. Nose gear remained down and locked.
> > Pilot walked away with no injuries.
> >
> > Photo is available.
> >
> > Tom Hughes
> > Tomball, TX

If the gear is down on a 210, how could it collapse? Putting weight on the
gear would lock it in position. Or did it just dangle?

They were just dangling..................
It appears as only the nose gear was down and locked.


On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:34:16 -0700, "Tom S." > wrote:

>> Tom Hughes wrote:
>>
>> > Hooks Airport, Spring TX, 2:15 PM today
>> > Cessna 210-L
>> > Landing gear malfunction.
>> > Gear down, but would not idicate in lock position.
>> > Main gear collapsed on touchdown. Nose gear remained down and locked.
>> > Pilot walked away with no injuries.
>> >
>> > Photo is available.
>> >
>> > Tom Hughes
>> > Tomball, TX
>
>If the gear is down on a 210, how could it collapse? Putting weight on the
>gear would lock it in position. Or did it just dangle?
>
>

Without hydraulic pressure the gear would be hanging straight down.

"Tom S." > wrote in message
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> > Tom Hughes wrote:
> >
> > > Hooks Airport, Spring TX, 2:15 PM today
> > > Cessna 210-L
> > > Landing gear malfunction.
> > > Gear down, but would not idicate in lock position.
> > > Main gear collapsed on touchdown. Nose gear remained down and locked.
> > > Pilot walked away with no injuries.
> > >
> > > Photo is available.
> > >
> > > Tom Hughes
> > > Tomball, TX
>
> If the gear is down on a 210, how could it collapse? Putting weight on the
> gear would lock it in position. Or did it just dangle?
>
>




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I recall that some of the back and forth radio talk was related to
hydraulics.

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:45:16 -0700, "JerryK"
> wrote:

>Without hydraulic pressure the gear would be hanging straight down.
>
>"Tom S." > wrote in message
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>> > Tom Hughes wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hooks Airport, Spring TX, 2:15 PM today
>> > > Cessna 210-L
>> > > Landing gear malfunction.
>> > > Gear down, but would not idicate in lock position.
>> > > Main gear collapsed on touchdown. Nose gear remained down and locked.
>> > > Pilot walked away with no injuries.
>> > >
>> > > Photo is available.
>> > >
>> > > Tom Hughes
>> > > Tomball, TX
>>
>> If the gear is down on a 210, how could it collapse? Putting weight on the
>> gear would lock it in position. Or did it just dangle?
>>
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