- Date
- October 6, 1982, 18:22 local (23:22 UTC)
- Place
- Hebbronville, TX
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N732KHCessna 210L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 6, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821006051519A
- Case key
- 71001
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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.
Analysis
The crew were advised that the acft's vacuum pump system was inoperative due to a sheared pump driveshaft. The copilot had stated that fss had forecast 25,000 ft broken & he did not feel he would need the pump. At 1735 the plt contacted center & requested radar advisories to brownsville. At 1812 the pilot requested & was granted permission to deviate around a cell. 12 minutes later the target disappeared. Wreckage examination revealed that the tail & right wing had separated in flight. There was a vip level 1 echo within 5 mi east & a vip level 3 echo within 10 mi se of the accident site. Moderate to severe convective turbulence & up & down drafts would have been present below 10,000 ft. the plt's liver tissue produced 96 mg% ethyl alcohol & mixed tisse fluid produced 112 mg%.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N732KH
- Reported as
- Cessna 210L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21061569
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-L-3A, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Big Country Oil Co
- Registered owner
- Big Country Oil Co
- Departed
- Kerrville, TX
- Destination
- Harlingen, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 42
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 8,809 total · 709 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Temperature
- 189 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MFE, 50 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.