Cessna T210L accident near Meridianville, AL
On March 6, 1997, a Cessna T210L (airplane) was involved in an accident near Meridianville, AL. 3 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- March 6, 1997
- Place
- Meridianville, AL
- Aircraft
- Cessna T210L · Airplane
- Injuries
- 3 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 34.871°N, 86.570°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001208X07591
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On March 5, 1997, about 1830 central standard time, a Cessna T210L, N2142S, registered to a private owner, operating as a Title 14 CFR Part 91, personal flight, crashed during the takeoff roll near Meridianville, Alabama. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and an IFR flight plan was filed, but not opened. The airplane was destroyed. The commercial pilot and two passengers were fatally injured. The flight was originating at the time, and was en route to Tunic, Mississippi. The pilot of Cessna N2142S telephoned the Air Traffic Control Specialist at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Anniston Automated Flight Service Station (AFSS), Oxford, Alabama, at 0716. He requested and received an area weather briefing. The same pilot called again and received another area briefing at 1038. At 1732, the pilot called the AFSS again, and according to the specialist asked, "for the weather en route from M82 [Meridianville] to M97 [Tunic]." The specialist said he gave the pilot the "weather advisories for occasional IFR conditions, en route, turbulence, and icing conditions...[a] tornado watch area just east of the Huntsville, Alabama, area moving east." The rest of the briefing included current, en route, and forecasted weather conditions, along with winds aloft [see transcript of radio communications]. The pilot filed an IFR flight plan, and the telephone call ended at 1749. Two witnesses, who were pilots, observed the airplane take off to the south, on runway 18, and witnessed the accident. According to one witness, he helped the pilot of N2142S untie th
Probable cause
the pilot's improper decision to takeoff downwind which resulted in his failure to maintain control of the airplane. The winds were a factor.
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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.
