- Date
- February 3, 1988, 15:59 local (21:59 UTC)
- Place
- Wheeling, IL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N421QCessna 421A
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 25, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880203001839A
- Case key
- 14040
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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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
Weather condition - crosswindFactor
Weather condition - tailwindFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Terrain condition - snow coveredFactor
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - snowbankFactor
Complete gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear - overload
Landing gear,nose gear - overload
Aircraft
- Registration
- N421Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 421A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 421A-0016
- Airframe hours
- 5,000
- Engine
- Continental GTSIO-520D, 375 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- R.J. Rossman DBA Glen Oak Ent.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · March 16, 1987
- Departed
- EVV · Evansville, IN
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- PWK · Palwaukee, runway 16, 5,137 × 100 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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,596 total · 1,358 in this make and model · 1,357 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 700 ft
- Temperature
- 27 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Observed at
- PWK
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.