- Date
- March 28, 2002, 08:28 local (15:28 UTC)
- Place
- Buena Vista, CO
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N29795Cessna 210-M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 29, 2003
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 54414
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Probable cause
The pilot's encounter with adverse weather. A factor was the unexpected downdraft after takeoff.
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
After liftoff the airplane was at about "fifty to one-hundred feet off the ground when it was suddenly knocked to the ground." The pilot attempted to maintain directional control as the airplane impacted the runway "hard." The pilot believed that a he encountered an unexpected downdraft.
Factual narrative
On March 28, 2002, at 0828 mountain standard time, a Cessna 210-M airplane, N29795, registered to and operated by a private individual, was substantially damaged when it impacted the runway shortly after take off from runway 33 at the Central County Municipal Airport, Buena Vista, Colorado. The airline transport rated pilot and one of his passengers were not injured and his second passenger received minor injuries. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and a flight plan was not filed for the Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The local flight was originating at the time of the accident.
In a telephone interview with the NTSB investigator-in-charge, the pilot stated that after liftoff the airplane was at about "fifty to one-hundred feet off the ground when it was suddenly knocked to the ground." He stated that he maintained directional control as the airplane impacted the runway "hard." The pilot, who had accumulated over 1,500 hours in the same make and model reported that the airplane encountered an unexpected downdraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N29795
- Reported as
- Cessna 210-M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21062114
- Airframe hours
- 3,658
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-R, 315 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Robert D. Schork
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 5, 2001 · 179 hours before
- Departed
- 7V1 · Buena Vista, CO
- Destination
- 7V1 · Buena Vista, CO
- Airport
- 7V1 · Central Colorado Reginal, runway 33, 8,300 × 75 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
- 50
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Last flight review
- May 20, 2000
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 15 knots, gusting 27
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- 7V1
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 10, 2003, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 619 KB in all.