- Date
- February 10, 2022, 14:30 UTC
- Place
- Honesdale, PA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5276CCessna T210N
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing area overshoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA Allentown
- FAA report
- 20220210001569A
- Case key
- 104655
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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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to attain the proper touchdown point, which resulted in a runway overrun and collision with terrain.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot stated he crossed over the destination airport, entered a left downwind for landing on runway 36, and extended the landing gear and “approach flaps.” He said he extended his flaps “further” on the base leg and flew a “stabilized” approach at 80 knots in “swirling…strong and gusty” winds. The pilot estimated touchdown was about 1,000 ft beyond the threshold of the 3,000-ft runway, and that braking action would not stop the airplane. The airplane continued off the departure end and down an embankment which resulted in substantial damage to the right wing. He added that perhaps the wind may have “shifted to a tailwind” which pushed the airplane. A review of commercially available track data and video surveillance revealed that the airplane crossed the landing threshold at 108 knots groundspeed and floated approximately 2/3rds the length of the landing runway before it touched down at 71 knots groundspeed with about 1,000 ft. of paved surface remaining. The pilot reported the airplane had no pre-impact mechanical anomalies that would have prevented normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5276C
- Reported as
- Cessna T210N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21063726
- Built
- 1979
- Airframe hours
- 4,052.9
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-R, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ani Holding & Equipment Co Inc
- Registered owner
- Ani Holding & Equipment Co Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 8, 2021 · 4.8 hours before
- Departed
- CDW · Fairfield, NJ
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- N30 · Cherry Ridge, runway 36, 2,986 × 50 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Stall warning system
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
- 83
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 7,526 total · 1,500 in this make and model · 4.8 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 12 knots, gusting 26
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 23 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.77 inHg
- Observed at
- MPO, 23 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KMPO 101853Z AUTO 25012G26KT 10SM SCT046 OVC070 04/M05 A2977 RMK AO2 PK WND 24030/1808 SLP093 T00391050=
Docket · 7
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 25, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 13.7 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.