- Date
- December 19, 1993, 15:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Festus, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N761AGCessna 210M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 20, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 9454
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Probable cause
Improper planning/decision by the pilot. Factors related to the accident were: the icy runway, crosswind and snowbank.
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 the local winds were from 090 degrees at 20 knots. The landing was made on runway 36, which according to the pilot was ice covered. After touchdown, the airplane traveled to the left side of the runway, where it hit a snowbank and the nose gears collapsed.
Factual narrative
On January 19, 1994, at 1500 central standard time, a Cessna 210M, N761AG, registered to Daris Almond, collided with a snowbank during a landing roll on Runway 36 at the Festus Memorial Airport, Festus, Missouri, while on a personal flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The airplane was substantially damaged and the pilot was not injured. The flight originated from Jefferson, Missouri,on January 19, 1994, at 1430 cst.
The pilot stated the local winds at the Festus Memorial Airport were from 090 degrees at 20 knots so he landed with the right wing down and left rudder. He stated that when the right main gear touched the runway, he felt the airplane "being pushed" to the left on the icy runway. The airplane continued to the left side of the runway where the left main gear contacted a snowbank. According to the pilot, the airplane turned sharply to the left and the nose gear also collapsed after hitting the snowbank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N761AG
- Reported as
- Cessna 210M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21062097
- Airframe hours
- 1,282
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-L3A, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Daris C. Almond
- Registered owner
- Daris C. Almond
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 27, 1993 · 39 hours before
- Departed
- JEF · Jefferson, MO
- Destination
- FES
- Airport
- FES · Festus Memorial, runway 36, 2,202 × 49 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
- 71
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,000 total · 1,200 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 12 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CP, 25 nm away