Cessna T210M N6687B

Summary

On 6 August 1999 at about 22:10 local time, a Cessna T210M registered N6687B was involved in an accident near Clovis, New Mexico, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

6 August 1999 at 22:10

Classification

Accident

Location

Clovis, New Mexico, United States

Nearest airport

Clovis Municipal Airport (CVN)

Coordinates

34.4092, -103.2001

Aircraft

Cessna T210M

Registration

N6687B

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 135: Air Taxi & Commuter

Purpose of flight

Unknown

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Dallas Love → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

DEN99FA137

1 person died.

The pilot's failure to maintain sufficient airspeed during final approach to landing, resulting in an inadvertent stall. A factor was the high density altitude.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The non-scheduled domestic cargo flight was en route from Dallas, Texas, to Clovis, New Mexico, with no cargo aboard, and was scheduled to pick up checks in Clovis. The pilot was overheard announcing his position over the airport's UNICOM frequency when the airplane was 15, 10 and 5 miles out for landing at Clovis, but was never observed to have landed. A witness 1 mile east of the airport, overheard the airplane's engine accelerate, and observed the airplane to be 'lower and slower' than most aircraft at that altitude inbound for landing. The airplane was level for several seconds, then 'turned into a nose dive and crashed.' A search for the airplane was initiated, and it was located .57 nm from the approach end of runway 22 approximately 1 hour later. The weather at the time of the accident was clear skies with winds from 200 degrees at 15 knots. The density altitude was calculated to be 6,648 feet above msl.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.