# NTSB CHI88FA039: Cessna T210N, N4746C, Bedford Park, IL, January 5, 1988

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Field investigation · Final report
- Date: January 4, 1988, 23:03 local (Jan 5, 1988, 05:03 UTC)
- Place: Bedford Park, IL
- Coordinates: 41.77943, -87.819458 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.7794&lon=-87.8195&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Approach](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/500) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 1 fatal
- Status: Completed, report November 28, 1989
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 13927
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=CHI88FA039
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/13927/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI88FA039

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Loss of engine power, approach
  - weather condition - temperature extremes (contributing factor)
  - throttle/power lever,cable - frozen (cause)
- Forced landing, descent - emergency
- In flight collision with object, landing
  - light condition - bright night (contributing factor)
  - object - building(nonresidential) (contributing factor)
  - in-flight planning/decision - improper, pilot in command (contributing factor)

## Analysis

DRG AN ARRIVAL TO CHICAGO MIDWAY ARPT ON A COLD NIGHT, THE PLT RPRTD HE WAS HAVING TROUBLE WITH A STICKY THROTTLE. SUBSEQUENTLY, HE MADE AN EMERGENCY TRANSMISSION & SAID HE WAS 'GOING IN.'  WITNESSES SAW THE ACFT IN A DESCENT BEFORE IT CRASHED. ONE WITNESS SAID THE ACFT WAS AT ABOUT 200' AGL WHEN IT PASSED OVER HIS POSITION & THAT HE COULD NOT HEAR ANY ENG NOISE. ANOTHER WITNESS SAID THE ACFT CAME IN AS IF TO LAND. SUBSEQUENTLY, IT CRASHED INTO A WAREHOUSE WHILE IN A WINGS LEVEL ATTITUDE. A TEARDOWN OF THE ENG WAS MADE, BUT NO PREIMPACT PART FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION WAS FOUND. A PLT, WHO FLEW THE ACFT ON THE MORNING OF THE ACDNT RPRTD THAT THE THROTTLE SEEMED TO BE STUCK WHEN HE 1ST STARTED THE ENG, BUT ONCE THE ENG WAS WARM, THE THROTTLE FUNCTIONED NORMALLY. HE THEN MADE AN UNEVENTFUL FLT. TEMP AT THE TIME OF THE ACDNT WAS RPRTD TO BE MINUS 8 DEG FAHRENHEIT.

## Aircraft

- Registration: [N4746C](https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N4746C-2012-12-13), registration cancelled 2012-12-13, S/N 21063610 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA T210N
- Registry model: [Cessna T210N](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-t210n) (registry code 2073456) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 21063610
- Airframe hours: 7255
- Engines: CONTINENTAL TSIO-520-R 310 horsepower reciprocating
- Damage: Destroyed
- Flight: Part 135
- Registered owner: Promptair, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Last inspection: Continuous airworthiness, December 26, 1987, 46 hours before
- Departed: MLI, MOLINE, IL
- Destination: MDW, CHICAGO, IL
- Flight plan: VFR/IFR
- Airport: MDW, Chicago Midway

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 24; commercial; airplane ratings: single-engine land; instrument ratings: airplane; medical: class 2, valid medical--no waivers/lim.; seat: left; toxicology performed; flight hours: 1,800 total, 370 in this make and model, 1,700 as pilot in command, 250 in the last 90 days, 80 in the last 30 days, 5 in the last 24 hours

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Night/bright
- Wind: 280° at 20 knots
- Visibility: 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: none
- Temperature: 9 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter: 30.00 inHg
- Observed at: MDW, 3 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 (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 19880104000889A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19880104000889A), Jan 4, 1988: Cessna T210N, Chicago, IL, Destroyed, 1 fatal. Pilot reported sticking throttle and he was going in with wings level. Struck a factory. Very cold air temperature.

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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