- Date
- November 2, 1982, 10:18 local (16:18 UTC)
- Place
- Normangee, TX
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N612JCessna P210N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 2, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821102056589A
- Case key
- 72029
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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
A company plt received two wx briefings from the san antonio fss, one was at about 1700 the day before the accident & the other on 11/2. After each wx briefing the company plt briefed the plt of the accident acft. The acft departed at about 0835. At 0953 the plt contacted flight watch & was advised of a convective SIGMET of embedded thunderstorms. At 1001 the plt requested & was cleared to FL190. This was the last radio contact with the acft. In flight separation of the wings, vertical & horizontal stabilizers occurred. The acft penetrated a dense area of thunderstorms with activity up to intense (level 5) & probably encountered severe turbulence. In addition there would probably been moderate to severe icing in rain shafts within the thunderstorms at the acft's flight altitude. The 0817 wx briefing was inadequate in that the area forecast which warned of thunderstorm activity enroute was not utilized.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N612J
- Reported as
- Cessna P210N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- P21000702
- Airframe hours
- 696
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-P, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Roloff Evangelistic Enterprise
- Registered owner
- Roloff Evangelistic Enterprise
- Departed
- C · Corpus Christi, TX
- Destination
- C · Kansas City, MO
- 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
- 68
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 20,000 total · 350 in this make and model · 20,000 as pilot in command · 150 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 172 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CLL, 30 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.