- Date
- March 5, 1987, 13:33 local (18:33 UTC)
- Place
- Charleston, WV
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1230MCessna 210M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870305004589A
- Case key
- 11282
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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 aircraft bounced after landing touchdown. Witnesses observed the aircraft assume a nose high attitude and heard some power applied to the engine as the aircraft veered to the right. It was not determined whether the pilot was attempting to abort the landing or regain control and complete the landing. The aircraft continued to veer right to a point 173 feet right of the runway pavement where it collided with a dirt bank at the edge of a deep ravine. Thereafter, the aircraft dove into the ravine and impacted on the nose while in a near vertical descent.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1230M
- Reported as
- Cessna 210M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21061925
- Airframe hours
- 3,405
- Engine
- Continental IO-520L, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Donald Frank Yenko
- Registered owner
- Yenko Chevrolet Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 22, 1985 · 282 hours before
- Departed
- CKB · Clarksburg, WV
- Airport
- CRW · Yeager, runway 23, 6,302 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 54
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 4,967 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CRW
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.