- Date
- February 10, 1992, 19:55 local (Feb 11, 1992, 01:55 UTC)
- Place
- Darrouzett, TX
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5896FCessna 210G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920210004769A
- Case key
- 18351
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control for undetermined reasons. A factor was the dark night.
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
During a night IFR flight the instrument rated pilot had been cleared by air traffic control to descend from a cruise altitude of eight thousand feet to six thousand feet. The clearance was acknowledged. Several minutes later contact was lost. The airplane descended at a high rate of speed at a direction approximately 127 degrees to the right of the assigned heading and impacted into a wet cultivated farm field. Examination of the airplane's vacuum pump revealed wear on the vanes and rotor. Metallurgical examination of the vacuum pump could not substantiate pre-impact failure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5896F
- Reported as
- Cessna 210G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21058896
- Airframe hours
- 2,220
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-A5, 280 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Perryton Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Perryton Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 29, 1991 · 64 hours before
- Departed
- PWA · Oklahoma City, OK
- Destination
- PYX · Perryton, 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 709 total · 165 in this make and model · 679 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 270° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 41 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GAG, 22 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.