FTW00FA001 · Cessna P210N
Cessna P210N · Accident: loss of control in flight on approach
From Dallas Executive Airport (RBD) to 88R
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW00FA001
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna P210N
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 210
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N7542K
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Dallas Executive Airport (RBD), Dallas, TXTo 88R
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Approach · VFR go-around
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of control in flight
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Stall/spin; Tree(s)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Airspeed, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Stall/spin, inadvertent
- Pilot in command › Throttle/power control, delayed
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
According to pilot-rated witnesses, the aircraft was 'very fast on final approach.' They added that the airplane floated for approximately 1/3 of the runway length and then flared. During the flare, the airplane ballooned about 50-75 feet, and continued to lose speed as it traveled down the runway. With about 1/3 of the runway length remaining, the airplane's right wing dropped, and the witnesses heard power being added as the airplane began an 'uncoordinated turn' to the west. The witnesses stated that the airplane appeared to be 'near a stall' when they lost sight of it, and they heard 'full power being applied' just prior to the sound of impact. One of the witnesses, who had flown with the pilot, stated that he cautioned her to be careful with the application of power, because the engine was recently overhauled and a mechanic told him to limit the manifold pressure (MP) until the engine was broken in. The maintenance records contained break-in procedures for a previous overhaul, which instructed the pilot not to exceed 30' of MP on takeoff, except in an emergency. No anomalies with the aircraft or engine were noted during the post-accident examinations.
Probable cause
The pilot's delayed application of full throttle during a go-around, which resulted in a slow airspeed and inadvertent stall/spin. A factor was the pilot's habit of only applying partial power during takeoff.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW00FA001
- Event ID
- 20001212X19947
- Case number
- FTW00FA001
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: b7602fc1a37bade02af209c6a025cbafe652c22e4053bf33f2f6e4cb7ebb52f6; retrieved 2026-09-20T21:44:22.571Z.