- Date
- May 17, 1988, 17:10 local (23:10 UTC)
- Place
- Albuquerque, NM
- Injuries
- 5 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5402YCessna T210N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 19, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880517014889A
- Case key
- 17367
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.
In flight encounter with weather
Weather condition - unfavorable windFactor
Go-around - initiated
Weather condition - gustsFactor
Weather condition - windshearCause
Loss of control - in flight
Airspeed - inadequateCause
Stall - inadvertentCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5402Y
- Reported as
- Cessna T210N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21064196
- Airframe hours
- 748
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-R, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- W. S. Brown, Inc.
- Registered owner
- W. S. Brown, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 13, 1987 · 57 hours before
- Departed
- CNM · Carlsbad, NM
- Destination
- 4AC
- Airport
- 4AC · Coronado, runway 21, 3,500 × 50 ft, asphalt
N5402YRegistration cancelled Apr 9, 2013 · Cessna T210NAirframe modelCessna T210NEngine modelContinental TSIO-520 series
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
- 60
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,146 total · 1,146 in this make and model · 693 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 17 knots, gusting 37
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ABQ, 6 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.