- Date
- March 11, 2026, 10:26 local (17:26 UTC)
- Place
- Upland, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N29138Cessna T210
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 7, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20260311002029A
- Case key
- 202637
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 pilot’s improper approach, which resulted in a long landing, runway excursion, and a nose over.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot stated that he was attempting to land at an airport he had never flown to. During his first attempt, he had difficulty slowing the airplane and opted to abort the landing. On the second approach, he landed long and upon touchdown, the airplane bounced and then settled back on the runway surface. The pilot applied heavy braking and the airplane slowed while he continued into the paved overrun. When the pavement ended, he had little braking traction on the dirt and he attempted to steer the airplane to the left, but the airplane was moving too slowly to obtain effective rudder steering and he did not have sufficient traction to steer with the brakes. The airplane continued through the dirt to an embankment, nosed over, and came to rest inverted with the wings on a chain-link fence. The airplane incurred substantial damage to the right wing during the accident sequence. The pilot stated that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N29138
- Reported as
- Cessna T210 (L)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21059815
- Built
- 1973
- Airframe hours
- 4,388
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-H, 285 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 10, 2025 · 55 hours before
- Departed
- L08 · Borrego Springs, CA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- CCB · Cable, runway 06/24, 3,863 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Auto-pilot, ADS-B
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
- 67
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 12, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 2,098.7 total · 1,009 in this make and model · 2,017.5 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.05 inHg
- Observed at
- KCCB
- METAR
- METAR KCCB 031835Z AUTO 25005KT 10SM CLR 17/08 A3005 RMK AO2
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.