# Incident 20121124028059I: Cessna 210N, Omaha, NE, November 24, 2012

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: November 24, 2012, 00:04 local time
- Place: Omaha, NE
- Airport: Eppley Airfield
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Takeoff: Climb Out
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Operator: FPIA
- Location: 41.3032° N, 95.8941° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at EPPLEY AIRFIELD (OMA), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.3032&lon=-95.8941&mi=10
- Aircraft: N4637Y, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N4637Y-2016-10-14) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 210N (registry code 2073453, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-210n) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-520 series (registry code 17032, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-520-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 210N
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 1,683 total, 365 in this make and model, 190 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20121124028059I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

AT APPROXIMATELY 00:00 CST, SATURDAY MORNING (MIDNIGHT), 11/24/2012, N4637Y, A CESSNA 210N, DEPARTED EPPLEY AIRFIELD, OMAHA NE.  THE AIRCRAFT WAS BEING OPERATED BY FLIGHT EXPRESS, AIR CARRIER CERTIFICATE FPIA, AS A CARGO OPERATION.  DURING CLIMBOUT, THE PILOT BANKED LEFT TO TURN.  AS THE PILOT LEVELED THE WINGS HE NOTICED THE ATTITUDE INDICATOR BEHAVING ERRATICALLY.   THE PILOT DETERMINED THE INDICATOR WAS NOT OPERATING PROPERLY AND RETURNED TO EPPLEY AIRFIELD TO HAVE THE INDICATOR EVALUATED.  THE RETURN FLIGHT TO EPPLEY WAS COMPLETED WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT.  MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL FROM SIGNATURE TECHNICAIR IN OMAHA (MGOR), REPLACED THE ATTITUDE GYRO INDICATOR WITH AN AIRWORTHY UNIT OF THE SAME PART NO.  THE INCIDENT OCCURRED DURING NIGHT VMC AND THE PILOT SUSTAINED NO INJURIES NOR DID THE AIRCRAFT SUSTAIN ANY DAMAGE.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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