Originally Posted by
megan
Noted NACA/NASA test pilot Scott Crossfield (X-1, X-15, dead sticked an F-100 - something company test pilots doubted could be done) lost his life when his 210A broke up. NTSB finding - "The pilot's failure to obtain updated en route weather information, which resulted in his continued instrument flight into a widespread area of severe convective activity, and the air traffic controller's failure to provide adverse weather avoidance assistance, as required by Federal Aviation Administration directives, both of which led to the airplane's encounter with a severe thunderstorm and subsequent loss of control."
Folk turn all sorts of airframes into scrap metal which then rains down from the atmosphere, nothing unique to the 210.
His was a
1961 Cessna 210A which was the first of the 210s and had struts. The 210 design does not and will not stand up to high G loading in turbulence anywhere close to normal cruise speed. Its a great plane to fly but an easy plane to fly apart