- Date
- January 28, 1987, 20:30 local (Jan 29, 1987, 01:30 UTC)
- Place
- West Point, VA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N244MBCessna T210N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report March 21, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11306
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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.
In flight collision with object
Terrain conditionCause
Terrain condition - snowbankCause
Airport snow removal - inadequateCause
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear - overloadCause
Analysis
The plt stated that the left main gear collided with a snowbank when the acft touched down on the rwy about 100 ft from the apch end and 10 ft left of the rwy centerline. Afterwards the left main gear folded into the wheel well.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N244MB
- Reported as
- Cessna T210N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 63358
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-R, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- J. R. Crow Rosalind Foer
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 27, 1986 · 160 hours before
- Departed
- OHF · Newport News, VA
- Airport
- W97 · West Point, runway 27, 3,700 × 75 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
- 31
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,003 total · 13 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 300° at 5 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
Other investigations on N244MB · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.