- Date
- January 26, 1993, 10:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Minocqua, WI
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N37224Cessna 310R
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930126000899A
- Case key
- 15655
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to properly align the aircraft with the landing area.
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 flight encountered icing at cruise, and ice remained on a portion of the windshield during the pilot's approach. A light snow was falling, and the field and runway were snow-covered. The left main gear touched down in a snowbank on the left edge of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N37224
- Reported as
- Cessna 310R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310R0964
- Airframe hours
- 2,136
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-M, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Dewitt Enterprises Inc., doing business as Midwest Aire
- Registered owner
- Dewitt Enterprises Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · November 12, 1992 · 41 hours before
- Departed
- CIU · Sault Ste Marie, MI
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ARV · Lakeland/Noble Lee Field, runway 28, 3,600 × 75 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,952 total · 200 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 19 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 900 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 27 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ARV, 1 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.