- Date
- November 20, 1990, 06:15 local (13:15 UTC)
- Place
- Clovis, NM
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N22054Cessna T210L
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901120051469A
- Case key
- 18009
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Probable cause
An inadvertent descent into the ground while conducting a non-precision instrument approach, as a result of the pilot failing to stop his descent at mda. A factor is low visibility due to fog.
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
While conducting a localizer-only approach in dense fog, the pilot descended below minimum descent altitude (mda) and collided with the ground approximately 400 yards short of the runway threshold. Shortly after touchdown, the aircraft collided with a piece of farm machinery which destroyed the aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N22054
- Reported as
- Cessna T210L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 59703
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-H, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- South Aero, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- ABQ · Albuquerque, NM
- Destination
- CVN
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- CVN · Clovis Municipal, runway 4, 6,200 × 150 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
- 59
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 5,900 total · 1,400 in this make and model · 5,900 as pilot in command · 150 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 200° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 200 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CVN, 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.
Other investigations on N22054 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.