- Date
- May 26, 1991, 12:48 local (16:48 UTC)
- Place
- Fernandina Bch, FL
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N6555YCessna 210N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 9, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910526017379A
- Case key
- 32878
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to obtain proper assistance while taxiing the airplane near a parked airplane.
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
While maneuvering the acft to avoid a parked acft, the rt main landing gear travelled off the ramp onto grass & across a wood covered drainage hole. The wood collapsed & the gear partially fell into the hole allowing the rt horizontal stabilizer to contact the ground. Exam of the grate revealed that the wood was deteriorated.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6555Y
- Reported as
- Cessna 210N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21064436
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-L, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ocala Plantations
- Registered owner
- Ocala Plantations
- Departed
- ABY · Albany, GA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 55J · Fernandina Bch Municipal
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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 3,629 total · 3,428 as pilot in command · 64 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,800 ft broken
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Observed at
- JAX, 14 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N6555Y · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.