Cessna 210M accident near Elliston, VA
On June 3, 1997, a Cessna 210M (airplane) was involved in an accident near Elliston, VA. 3 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- June 3, 1997
- Place
- Elliston, VA
- Aircraft
- Cessna 210M · Airplane
- Injuries
- 3 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 37.209°N, 80.229°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001208X08208
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On June 3, 1997, about 1658 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 210M, N9162M, was destroyed when it collided with terrain near Elliston, Virginia, while on an instrument approach to the Roanoke Regional/Woodrum Field (ROA), Roanoke, Virginia. The private pilot/owner and two flight instructor rated passengers were fatally injured. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed at the accident site for the flight that departed ROA, about 1640. An instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan had been filed for the personal flight conducted under 14 CFR Part 91. The pilot/owner contacted the Leesburg Automated Flight Service Station, at 1509, and obtained a standard weather briefing for an IFR flight in the Roanoke, Virginia area. At 1538, the pilot again contacted the Leesburg AFSS and obtained a preflight weather briefing for the local Roanoke, Virginia area, and filed an IFR flight plan. In the flight plan information provided to the AFSS, the pilot listed himself as the pilot-in-command. According to the pilot/owner's wife, the pilot was to receive refresher instrument training from a flight instructor. However, the private pilot had not scheduled to fly with any employees of the local flight school, which included the two certificated flight instructor (CFI) rated passengers. Also, he was not on either of the CFIs work schedules for the day. Neither CFI had any previous experience in the pilot's make and model airplane. The three pilots entered the airplane, where the pilot/owner was seated in the front left seat. One of the CFIs was seated in the front right se
Probable cause
failure of the PIC to maintain control of the airplane, due to spatial disorientation.
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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.
