- Date
- February 15, 1983, 16:04 local (21:04 UTC)
- Place
- Chesterfield, VA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5889FCessna 210G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830215004199A
- Case key
- 5958
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The acft collided with a snow bank during landing. The student pilot was making touch & go landings on a traffic flight. The snow banks covered 17 feet on each side of the runway. Runway width was 75 feet. The CFI said the acft drifted to the left during a go-around and ended up off the left side of the runway in the snow.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5889F
- Reported as
- Cessna 210G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21058889
- Airframe hours
- 2,724
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-A, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- E.T. Brown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 17, 1982 · 38 hours before
- Departed
- RIC · Sandston, VA
- Airport
- W98 · Chesterfield, runway 33, 4,400 × 75 ft, macadam
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 37
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 989 total · 23 in this make and model · 863 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RIC, 11 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.