- Date
- December 26, 1990, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Windsor, SC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2251QCessna 310Q
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901226056139A
- Case key
- 8365
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Probable cause
Failure of the owner of the private sod airport to properly maintain the runway, which precipitated the loss of control of the airplane during the landing roll.
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 private pilot stated that during the landing roll the left main gear encountered a soft spot in the sod runway and began to pull off to the left side of the runway and the aircraft hit a fence. Investigation revealed that a two foot path, probably made by horse, ran at an angle across the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2251Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 310Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310Q0716
- Engine
- Continental 10-460-V0, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Bignault, Walter P.
- Departed
- SAV · Savannah, GA
- Destination
- NONE · Windsor, SC
- Airport
- NONE · Windy Acres Ranch, runway 16, 2,300 × 50 ft, grass/turf
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
- 47
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 267 total · 128 in this make and model · 267 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 9,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AGS, 30 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.