SEA84FA223 · Cessna T210M
Cessna T210M · Accident: in flight encounter with weather en route
From Eastern Oregon Regional Airport at Pendleton (PDT) to 60S · Vancouver, WA
Event
- NTSB case
- SEA84FA223
- 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 T210M
- 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
- N191WB
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Eastern Oregon Regional Airport at Pendleton (PDT), Pendleton, ORTo 60S · Vancouver, WA
- 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
- En route · cruise
- 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
- In flight encounter with weather
- 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
- Visual flight rules (VFR) flight into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC)
- 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 › Aircraft handling, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Design stress limits of aircraft, exceeded
- Pilot in command › Spatial disorientation
- Pilot in command › VFR flight into imc, attempted
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
A WITNESS, LOCATED 3 MI SE OF THE ACCIDENT SITE, REPORTED HEARING THE ACFT 'REV UP TO A SCREAM FOLLOWED BY A CRASH THAT SOUNDED LIKE A MINIATURE SONIC BOOM.' THE ACFT CONTACTED THE TERRAIN IN AN UNCONTROLLEDD DESCENT AT AN ELEV OF 2100 FT MSL. INSPECTION OF THE WRECKAGE REVEALED THE HORIZONTAL STABILIZER AND LEFT WING HAD SEPARATED FROM THE ACFT. THE SEPARATED OUTBOARD SECTION OF THE LEFT WING WAS NOT LOCATED. METALLURGICAL EXAM OF THE REMAINING PORTION OF THE LEFT WING SPAR DISCLOSED A FAILURE 'TYPICAL OF OVERSTRESS.' THE NEAREST WX REPORTING STATION, TROUTDALE, OR, LOCATED 13 NM SW OF THE ACCIDENT LOCATION AT AN ELEV OF 30 FT MSL HAD A 1845 PDT OBSERVATION OF: 2500 FT SCATTERED, E4000 FT OVERCAST WITH 20 SM VIVIBILITY.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record SEA84FA223
- Event ID
- 20001214X41226
- Case number
- SEA84FA223
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1984-09-08.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 3499216b482acac2a5652c053135b9f76c8694283fd38ca184c69b8ac1b65196; retrieved 2026-09-21T05:21:11.985Z.