- Date
- October 16, 1987, 18:11 local (Oct 17, 1987, 01:11 UTC)
- Place
- Walla Walla, WA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7231NCessna T210N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871016072849A
- Case key
- 40752
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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Analysis
The pilot landed short and the aircraft's main landing gear struck the edge of a plateau at the approach end of the private strip. The aircraft swerved off the grass runway, the nose gear collapsed, and the aircraft nosed over.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7231N
- Reported as
- Cessna T210N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21063120
- Airframe hours
- 1,507
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Computer Networking Spec. Inc
- Registered owner
- Computer Networking Spec., Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 13, 1987 · 7 hours before
- Departed
- SJC · San Jose, CA
- Airport
- Grove Field, runway 23, 1,570 × 33 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
- 25
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,219 total · 507 in this make and model · 954 as pilot in command · 72 in the last 90 days · 28 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ALW, 7 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.