- Date
- July 4, 1982, 20:20 local (Jul 5, 1982, 03:20 UTC)
- Place
- South Lake Taho, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2106SCessna T210L
- Weather
- Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report July 4, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820704070119A
- Case key
- 72650
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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 reported that during a landing, the aircraft bounced, came down, bounced again and ballooned. At that moment, he elected to go around. He stated that he advanced the throttle and retracted the gear to reduce drag, but the engine died and the plane nosed in. After the accident, he reported that he should not have retracted the gear until he had a positive rate of climb and he should have advanced the trottle more slowly.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2106S
- Reported as
- Cessna T210L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21061070
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-H, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Akira Tajira
- Registered owner
- Akira Tajira
- Departed
- FAT · Fresno, CA
- Destination
- RDV · Red Devil, AK
- Airport
- TVL · Lake Tahoe, runway 18, 8,544 × 150 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
- 55
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Invalid Medical for flight
- Flight hours
- 289 total · 289 in this make and model · 267 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Dusk
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.