- Date
- March 26, 1991, 07:48 local (14:48 UTC)
- Place
- Boise, ID
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N2107XCessna 337
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910326007619A
- Case key
- 41309
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to remove the aircraft control locks prior to attempting flight. Factors include an inadequate preflight.
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 337 failed to remove the aircraft's control locks. The aircraft crashed onto the airport ramp area after taking off, climbing steeply, and rolling partially inverted before impacting nose low and left wing down, in an approximate 95 degree bank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2107X
- Reported as
- Cessna 337
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3370007
- Engine
- Continental IO-360C & D, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Rma, Inc., doing business as Spokane Airways, Inc.
- Destination
- GEG · Spokane, WA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- BOI · Boise Air Terminal, runway 1, 7,400 × 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
- 56
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 8,000 total · 160 in this make and model · 7,800 as pilot in command · 80 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 22,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.