- Date
- March 16, 1988, 17:34 local (Mar 17, 1988, 00:34 UTC)
- Place
- Billings, MT
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N2180SCessna 210
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880316049669I
- Case key
- 17394
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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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.
Loss of engine power(total) - mech failure/malf
Engine assembly,connecting rod - failure,totalCause
Fluid,oil - starvationCause
Forced landing
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2180S
- Reported as
- Cessna 210
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21061141
- Airframe hours
- 3,545
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-L, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Lynch Flying Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · March 11, 1988 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- DIK · Dickinson, ND
- Destination
- BIL · Billings, MT
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 50
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,394 total · 1,510 in this make and model · 4,334 as pilot in command · 106 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point 3 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BIL, 15 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.