CHI83LA061 · Cessna 310R
Union Boiler Cessna 310R · Accident: in flight encounter with weather en route
From CIV · Sault Ste. Marie, MI to Yeager Airport (CRW)
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI83LA061
- 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
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
Cessna 310R
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 310
- 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
- N1777E
- Operator
- Union Boiler
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From CIV · Sault Ste. Marie, MITo Yeager Airport (CRW), Charleston, WV
- 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
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Flight into known adverse weather, continued
- Pilot in command › In-flight planning/decision, improper
- Wing › Ice
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
PRIOR TO A FLIGHT FROM CHARLESTON, WV TO SAULT STE MARIE, MI, THE PILOT WAS BRIEFED TO EXPECT ICING CONDITIONS. DURING THE FLIGHT, MIXED AND RIME ICING CONDITIONS WERE ENCOUNTERED; HOWEVER, THE DEICING EQUIPMENT REMOVED IT SATISFACTORILY. AN UPDATE WEATHER BRIEFING WAS NOT OBTAINED FOR A RETURN FLIGHT. AFTER TAKEOFF, THE PILOT LEVELED AT 7000 FT MSL. ABOUT 22 MIN LATER, HE REQUESTED A LOWER ALTITUDE BECAUSE OF HEAVY ICING CONDITIONS. THE AIRCRAFT WAS CLEAR TO 6000 FT, THEN 5000 FT, BUT WAS STILL IN ICING CONDITIONS. A CLIMB TO 9000 WAS THEN UNSUCCESSFULLY ATTEMPTED. THE PILOT THEN DIVERTED TOWARD GAYLORD AND WAS CLEARED TO 3500 FT. THE PILOT SAW THE AIRPORT WHILE AT AN ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 900 FT AGL, BUT WAS UNABLE TO MANEUVER THE PLANE TO LAND ON A RUNWAY. FINALLY, AT AN ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 50 FT AGL, HE LEVELED THE WINGS AND LANDED STRAIGHT AHEAD. DURING THE LANDING ROLL-OUT, THE AIRCRAFT COLLIDED WITH TREES.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI83LA061
- Event ID
- 20020917X04485
- Case number
- CHI83LA061
- 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: 1d408a0dd9bddd88a1686559a130039dac5181dc7182c421c774d4e069e30b46; retrieved 2026-09-23T23:44:34.853Z.