- Date
- February 15, 1990, 08:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Wheeling, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6186XCessna T310R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 4, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900215002739A
- Case key
- 14633
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Probable cause
Pilot's inability to maintain directional during the landing phase of flight. The slippery, snow covered runway, and a twelve knot direct crosswind contributed to the accident.
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 pilot stated that his touchdown and initial rollout were normal, but as it decelerated, the aircraft began to drift to the left. Attempts to stop the drift were ineffective, and the aircraft departed the left side of the runway into a snowbank. The landing runway was slippery and snow covered, and there was a twelve knot direct crosswind from the right. Braking action had been reported as fair to poor.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6186X
- Reported as
- Cessna T310R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310R1325
- Airframe hours
- 7,413
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-M, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Central Skyport
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 10, 1990 · 19 hours before
- Departed
- AGC · Allegheny Co., PA
- Destination
- PWK · Wheeling, IL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- PWK · Palwaukee, runway 34, 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
- 35
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,695 total · 47 in this make and model · 2,144 as pilot in command · 48 in the last 90 days · 43 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 18 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 28 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- 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.