- Date
- February 11, 1987, 16:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Moundsville, WV
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N918MCCessna 310Q
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 7, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11309
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Analysis
On touchdown the pilot realized that he was long but decided it was too late to go-around. He intentionally ground looped the aircraft to the right. Both ends of the runway drop off into a valley.
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.
Abrupt maneuver
Proper touchdown point - not attainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - intentionalCause
Gear collapsed
Aircraft
- Registration
- N918MC
- Reported as
- Cessna 310Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31000103
- Airframe hours
- 2,260
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-E2B, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Trans America Training Corp.
- Registered owner
- Transamerican Trading Co.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 12, 1986 · 107 hours before
- Departed
- Louisville, KY
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- 74D · Marshall County Airport, runway 24, 3,300 × 60 ft, asphalt
N918MCRegistration cancelled Apr 4, 2018 · Cessna 310QAirframe modelCessna 310QEngine modelContinental I0-470 series
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
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,000 total · 450 in this make and model · 3,400 as pilot in command · 80 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg