ERA24LA285 · Cessna T210L
Cessna T210L · Accident: loss of control on ground during landing
From PLW · Port Clinton, OH to Ohio University Airport (UNI)
Narrative check · The NTSB narrative appears to contradict this record's departure or destination. Values are shown as recorded, not corrected; compare with the narrative.
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA24LA285
- 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 T210L
- 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
- N75DM
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route Possible conflict
- From PLW · Port Clinton, OHTo Ohio University Airport (UNI), Albany, OH
- Aircraft age
- About 48 years (built 1976)
- 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
- Landing · landing roll
- Defining eventThe 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
- 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
- Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability
- Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena
- Personnel issues › Task performance
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The pilot reported that as he approached the destination airport, he tuned into the airport’s automated weather observing system and received a report that indicated an 80-degree left crosswind at 12 knots, with no gusts reported. The pilot continued the approach and nearing the airport, the pilot again noted that the wind was reported as an 85-degree left crosswind at at 13 knots. About 300 to 400 ft into the landing roll, the pilot described that the there was a sudden, strong tailwind gust. The airplane then veered sharply to the left, and the pilot was unable to maintain directional control despite applying full right rudder. The pilot then attempted to abort the landing, and when the airplane was about 15 feet off the ground, it struck the airport perimeter fence. The airplane’s right wing, fuselage, and empennage were substantially damaged. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The weather conditions reported at the airport about 7 minutes after the accident included an 80-degree left crosswind at 10 knots, with gusts to 16 knots.
Probable cause
The pilot's loss failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during a crosswind landing. Contributing was an unanticipated wind gust.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA24LA285
- Event ID
- 20240701194581
- Case number
- ERA24LA285
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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, cause areas. 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: a6fa1322c40a85c13e8bc8afc5637601afd06385818d3de2137b73f45a144971; retrieved 2026-09-16T18:59:07.340Z.