LAX89LA156 · Cessna T210
Cessna T210 · Accident: loss of control on ground/water during takeoff
From Sundsvall-Härnösand Airport (SDL) to Manzanillo
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX89LA156
- 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
- 0 · 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 T210
- 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
- N5523C
- Operator
- George M. Aeed · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Sundsvall-Härnösand Airport (SDL)To Manzanillo
- 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
- Takeoff · roll/run
- 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 on ground/water
- 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 › Directional control, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Rotation, abrupt
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
ACCORDING TO AN FAA WITNESS, THE PILOT DID NOT EXECUTE AN ENGINE RUNUP OR A PRE-TAKEOFF CHECK. DURING THE TAKEOFF ROLL, THE AIRPLANE OSCILLATED TO THE RT AND LEFT OF CENTERLINE. THESE OSCILLATIONS INCREASED IN AMPLITUDE TO A POINT 1,500 FEET DOWN THE RUNWAY. THE AIRPLANE ROLLED TO THE RIGHT, ONTO ITS RIGHT MAIN WHEEL AND NOSE WHEEL. AT THIS POINT, IT ABRUPTLY ROTATED TO A NOSE HIGH ATTITUDE, THE TAIL STRUCK THE RUNWAY AND THE AIRPLANE BECAME AIRBORNE TO 10 FTAGL. THE AIRPLANE BANKED TO THE RIGHT, STRUCK THE RIGHT WINGTIP ON THE RUNWAY, AND CARTWHEELED OFF THE RUNWAY. THE AIRPLANE STRUCK A DRAINAGE DITCH AND FIRE ERUPTED IN THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT. THE WEIGHT AND BALANCE WERE WITHIN LIMITS. THE ELEVATOR TRIM CONTROL WAS FOUND IN THE FULL NOSE UP POSITION.
Probable cause
THE PILOT'S LOSS OF DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE DURING THE GROUND RUN AND ABRUPT ROTATION TO GET AIRBORNE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX89LA156
- Event ID
- 20001213X28123
- Case number
- LAX89LA156
- 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: 18abd720b91dfdfc3bdd37b92dcacea3505729e6938ec40ae1b90aa6ebcfea99; retrieved 2026-09-22T00:15:01.871Z.