Cessna 210N accident near Highland, MI
On January 21, 1997, a Cessna 210N (airplane) was involved in an accident near Highland, MI. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- January 21, 1997
- Place
- Highland, MI
- Aircraft
- Cessna 210N · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 42.631°N, 83.610°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001208X07261
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On January 21, 1997, at 1807 eastern standard time, a Cessna 210N, N29WW, was lost on radar four miles south southwest of Pontiac, Michigan. The business flight operating under provisions of 14 CFR Part 91, departed Troy, Michigan, about 1755 with the intended destination of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The flight was operating on an IFR flight plan. The destroyed airplane and two fatal instrument rated pilot occupants were located on January 22, 1997, near Highland, Michigan. The airplane had sustained an in-flight separation of an outboard twelve foot section of the right wing, which was found about one-half mile northwest of the main wreckage. The reported weather at Pontiac, Michigan, was visual meteorological conditions; however, residents near the accident site reported to the investigator that freezing rain was falling at the approximate time of the event. At 1748 an individual identifying himself as the pilot of N29WW called the Lansing (Michigan) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Automated Flight Service Station (AFSS), requesting a weather briefing for a proposed flight from Troy, Michigan, to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. A transcript of that conversation is attached as an addendum to this report. The pilot stated during the initial portion of his request that he was "concerned with icing conditions en route... ." He was told by the AFSS briefer that there were advisories for moderate to isolated severe turbulence along the route of flight; however, an inversion indicated temperature above freezing at the proposed cruising altitude. The pilot concluded the te
Probable cause
in-flight breakup of the airplane for undetermined reason(s).
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
