- Date
- September 7, 1989, 10:15 local (17:15 UTC)
- Place
- Marble Canyon, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5434VCessna 210
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890907033999A
- Case key
- 26497
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Probable cause
The pilot selected the wrong runway and landed downwind.
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 acft landed on runway 21 with a 20 - 30 knot tailwind, ran off the runway severed the nose gear, and flipped over onto its back. The plt reptd that there was no windsock. Airport personnel reptd that the windsock is located on the north end of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5434V
- Reported as
- Cessna 210
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 60947
- Airframe hours
- 2,800
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ahee, Ferris D.
- Registered owner
- Ahee, F Donald
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 1989 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- SOW · Showlow, AZ
- Destination
- L41
- Airport
- L41 · Marble Canyon, runway 21, 3,715 × 68 ft, dirt
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
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,000 total · 2,700 in this make and model · 15 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 0° at 30 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.