- Date
- July 8, 1990, 11:34 local (18:34 UTC)
- Place
- Everett, WA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 5 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N9407MCessna T210K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900708024589A
- Case key
- 41116
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Probable cause
Inadequate preflight by the pilot by not assuring that the rudder pedals were properly engaged. A factor related to the accident was: the pilot's lack of familiarity with this make and model of aircraft.
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 of the Cessna T210K, who was a certificated flight instructor, elected to fly the airplane from thee right seat, while carrying passengers on a recreational flight. He stated that he had difficulty taxiing & maintaining directional control during the takeoff roll. The aircraft crashed on the left side of the runway shortly after lift-off & was destroyed by fire & impact damage. The stowable rudder pedals were found to be in the stowed position. The panel knob for the stowable pedals was in the engaged position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9407M
- Reported as
- Cessna T210K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 210-59307
- Airframe hours
- 3,934
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-H1, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Morcom Aviation Services, Inc., doing business as Regal Air
- Registered owner
- Centurian Assoc. Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 19, 1990 · 64 hours before
- Departed
- PAE
- Destination
- FRH · Friday Harbor, WA
- Airport
- PAE · Snohomish County, runway 34, 9,010 × 200 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
- 32
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 627 total · 3 in this make and model · 578 as pilot in command · 145 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PAE
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.