- Date
- February 26, 1990, 17:01 local (22:01 UTC)
- Place
- Sarasota, FL
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N525CWCessna 210-M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900226002909A
- Case key
- 32548
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The total loss of engine power caused by crankshaft failure, due to fatigue cracking of undetermined origin.
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 commercial pilot was on initial climb at 200 feet AGL from the Sarasota-bradenton airport, Sarasota, Florida, when the airplane experienced a total loss of engine power. The pilot was on a non scheduled air taxi flight in VFR conditions. No flight plan was filed. The pilot conducted an emergency descent, and forced landing back to the departure airport. On landing roll, the airplane experienced an on ground collision with a dirt bank and was destroyed. The pilot sustained serious injuries. Examination of the crankshaft by the NTSB materials laboratory revealed the crankshaft failed due to fatigue cracking of undetermined origin.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N525CW
- Reported as
- Cessna 210-M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21062438
- Airframe hours
- 1,872
- Engine
- Continental IO-520L3, 275 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Flight Express
- Registered owner
- Flight Express Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 7, 1989 · 202 hours before
- Destination
- OPF · Opa Locka, FL
- Airport
- runway 4, 5,004 × 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
- 47
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 10,119 total · 5,276 in this make and model · 10,046 as pilot in command · 232 in the last 90 days · 74 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 18 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SRQ
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.