- Date
- May 3, 2001, 20:40 local (May 4, 2001, 03:40 UTC)
- Place
- Truckee, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6425NCessna T210N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 23, 2002
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
- FAA report
- 20010503010139A
- Case key
- 52207
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain the proper descent and his failure to maintain directioinal control during landing.
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 a hard landing, the airplane veered off the runway and collided with airport property. The pilot executed a go-around then landed without further incident. Witnesses saw the airplane make a hard landing, veer off the runway into the dirt, hit a light and taxiway sign, then takeoff again with items embedded in the horizontal stabilizer.
Factual narrative
On May 3, 2001, at 2040 hours Pacific daylight time, a Cessna T210N, N6425N, veered off the runway while landing on runway 28, and struck a landing light and taxiway sign at the Truckee-Tahoe Airport, Truckee, California. The airplane was operated by the pilot/owner under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91, and sustained substantial damage. The private pilot and one passenger were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the personal flight that departed Oakland, California, at 1920. The flight was scheduled to terminate at the Truckee-Tahoe Airport. No flight plan had been filed.
The pilot stated that the airplane landed hard on the first attempt, and the landing was aborted. On the second attempt, the airplane landed hard again, the pilot lost directional control, and the horizontal stabilizer was damaged after it struck a landing light and taxiway sign.
The Safety Board Investigator-in-Charge (IIC) interviewed a witness to the accident. The witness stated that the airplane made a hard landing and departed the runway where it struck a sign, and then it took off again with the sign embedded in the airplane. The airplane went around in the pattern and landed normally.
A Federal Aviation Administration inspector conducted an on-scene investigation. He reported that part of a taxiway sign was embedded in the horizontal stabilizer and compression wrinkles were observed on the left side of the airplane near the baggage door.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6425N
- Reported as
- Cessna T210N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21063001
- Engine
- Continental IO-540, 320 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John Keagy
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- OAK · Oakland, CA
- Destination
- TRK · Truckee, CA
- Airport
- TRK · Truckee-Tahoe, runway 28, 7,000 × 100 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
- 33
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Last flight review
- September 20, 1999
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 274 total · 22 in this make and model · 169 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 0° at 0 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 37 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.27 inHg
- Observed at
- TVL, 53 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.