- Date
- May 8, 1986, 21:20 local (May 9, 1986, 02:20 UTC)
- Place
- Tyler, TX
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6610YCessna 210N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860508016489A
- Case key
- 22023
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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 pilot failed to flare the aircraft before touchdown, causing the aircraft to bounce and assume a nose down attitude, before it impacted the ground, although the pilot states he lost directional control due to locked controls, investigation did not reveal any malfunction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6610Y
- Reported as
- Cessna 210N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21064458
- Airframe hours
- 3,003
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-R, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Air Exchange, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 1, 1986 · 21 hours before
- Departed
- DAL · Dallas, TX
- Airport
- TYR · Tyler, runway 13, 7,200 × 150 ft, grass/turf
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
- 44
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,927 total · 1,171 in this make and model · 2,927 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 170° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TYL
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 N6610Y · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.