- Date
- January 6, 1989, 19:40 local (Jan 7, 1989, 01:40 UTC)
- Place
- Greenwood, MS
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N590GCCessna 210L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report January 22, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890106016369A
- Case key
- 32380
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain directional control, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve.
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 plt rprtd that after a bounced landing at night, the acft went off the rgt side of the runway. She applied power for a go-around. A witness rprtd the acft 'staggered' into the air. Subsequently, the acft hit a bale of hay, aprx 150 ft to the rgt of the runway & was damaged. The plt rprtd that she believed the rgt brake had seized. However, an operational check & disassembly of the brake revealed no evidence of a malfunction or failure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N590GC
- Reported as
- Cessna 210L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21060075
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-H, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Crenshaw, Candace
- Registered owner
- Candace Crenshaw
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PDK · Atlanta, GA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- GWO · Greenwood Leflore, runway 18, 4,996 × 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
- 28
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 500 total · 300 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 170° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GWO
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.