- Date
- June 10, 1990, 10:51 local (15:51 UTC)
- Place
- Wheeling, IL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7134JCessna T210N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900610019569A
- Case key
- 14687
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Probable cause
Pilot-in-command's failure to obtain a proper flare attitude in the aircraft prior to touchdown.
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 experienced a hard landing and the nose wheel fork fractured on touchdown. The aircraft departed the runway to the left and sustained substantial damage. The pilot and his three passengers reported no injuries.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7134J
- Reported as
- Cessna T210N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21063997
- Airframe hours
- 1,718
- Engine
- Teledyne Cont TSIO-520-R, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- C.B. Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 19, 1990 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- BRD · Brainerd, MN
- Airport
- PWK · Pawuaukee, 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
- 61
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 459 total · 217 in this make and model · 318 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 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.
Other investigations on N7134J · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.