- Date
- February 8, 1985, 11:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Bay City, MI
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5484GCessna 421C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850208002869A
- Case key
- 12996
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Airport facilities,runway/landing area condition - foreign substance coveredFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - uncontrolledCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - snowbankFactor
Analysis
The acft colloded with a snowbank during lndg. The plt & passg stated that a lndg gear cught in snow piled at an intersection from plowing. The induced drag veered the acft off the rwy to the left.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5484G
- Reported as
- Cessna 421C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 421C0231
- Airframe hours
- 20,998
- Engine
- Continental GTSIO-520-L, 375 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Eugene A. Smith
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 9, 1985 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- MOP · Mt. Pleasant, MI
- Airport
- 3CM · James Clements, runway 18, 3,200 × 70 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,771 total · 586 in this make and model · 1,637 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 18 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 12 °F, dew point 3 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MBS, 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.