- Date
- May 31, 1991, 21:10 local (Jun 1, 1991, 04:10 UTC)
- Place
- St. Helena, CA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N3ZCessna T-210
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report May 7, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910531018639A
- Case key
- 27224
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Probable cause
That the pilot executed a poorly planned approach and failed to attain a proper touchdown point and delayed the go-around.
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 was completing a visual flight rules flight and was landing on a short asphalt surface runway. The pilot landed long and then attempted to execute a go-around, but during the takeoff ground run the right main landing gear became entangled with a steel cable at the end of the runway causing the airplane to abruptly go out of control. The airplane came to rest about 100 yards beyond the end of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3Z
- Reported as
- Cessna T-210
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 61085
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520H, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kenny G. Adams
- Registered owner
- Kenny G. Adams
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- L67 · Rialto, CA
- Airport
- Inglenook, runway 36, 1,700 × 20 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
- 38
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,125 total · 85 in this make and model · 1,245 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Temperature
- 75 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.