- Date
- October 7, 2007, 02:15 local (06:15 UTC)
- Place
- Festus, MO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N100GKCessna Turbo Centurion T210
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report November 29, 2007
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA-ACE-ROC
- Case key
- 66882
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Probable cause
The deer on the runway during the airplane landing rollout.
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 was substantially damaged on landing after colliding with a deer on the runway. The pilot reported that the landing was uneventful until touchdown when four deer appeared and ran across the runway from the west. The pilot reported trying to avoid the collision by raising the nose of the aircraft to allow the deer to go under the aircraft. One of the deer impacted and sheared off the nose wheel. The pilot lowered the nose to the runway and brought the aircraft to a complete stop. The pilot and passenger were not injured.
Factual narrative
The aircraft was substantially damaged on landing after colliding with a deer on the runway. The pilot reported that the landing was uneventful until touchdown when four deer appeared and ran across the runway from the west. The pilot reported trying to avoid the collision by raising the nose of the aircraft to allow the deer to go under the aircraft. One of the deer impacted and sheared off the nose wheel. The pilot lowered the nose to the runway and brought the aircraft to a complete stop. The pilot and passenger were not injured.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N100GK
- Reported as
- Cessna Turbo Centurion T210
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 210-59905
- Airframe hours
- 1,671
- Engine
- Teledyne Continental TSIO-520H, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- David & Kelli Lewis
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 1, 2007
- Departed
- KCOU · Columbia, MO
- Destination
- KFES · Festus, MO
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
- 53
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer, Commercial, Military
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 1, 2007
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 17,400 total · 320 in this make and model · 8,800 as pilot in command · 275 in the last 90 days · 80 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.09 inHg