The DEADLY "Invisible" Flaw Inside The Cessna 210!

The DEADLY "Invisible" Flaw Inside The Cessna 210! === #fligdebrief #cessna #planecrash === The Cessna 210’s Silent Killer that keep killing pilot... On May twenty sixth, two thousand nineteen, a Cessna T-two-ten-M registered Victor Hotel-Siera Uniform X-ray took off from Mount Isa Airport in Queensland, Australia. The airplane belonged to Thomson Aviation and was being used for a geophysical survey mission. That means flying very low, about sixty meters above the ground, along straight parallel lines to measure magnetic changes in the earth below. The pilot was experienced, with nearly four thousand flight hours, including more than one hundred hours flown in the previous ninety days alone. The weather was clear. Victor Hotel-Siera Uniform X-ray had completed a one hundred ten-hour maintenance inspection nine days earlier, and no issues had been reported. The aircraft had logged more than twelve thousand one hundred seventy four flight hours over its lifetime. The DEADLY "Invisible" Flaw Inside The Cessna 210! One hour and forty minutes after takeoff, while flying the sixth survey line at one hundred forty seven knots and one hundred ninety three feet above the ground, the airplane’s right wing suddenly separated from the fuselage. The aircraft immediately became uncontrollable and crashed. Both the pilot and the observer were killed. The starting point of this entire tragedy goes back many years before the accident. And what this crash revealed was that this aircraft model had a hidden flaw inside it all along, one that could stay unnoticed for years and then kill its pilot on an otherwise normal day. So what was that flaw in the Cessna two hundred ten? and Why did global aviation need decades to identify it? I'm George, and just a second, seventy two percent of you who regularly watch this channel still haven’t subscribed yet. Our goal is fifty percent. So if you’ve ever enjoyed any of our episodes, just click the Subscribe button. It helps the channel more than you think. The DEADLY "Invisible" Flaw Inside The Cessna 210! Now, To understand the problem, we need to go back to the beginning. The original Cessna two hundred ten first appeared in nineteen fifty seven. It was basically a Cessna one hundred eighty two with retractable landing gear and a few small upgrades. The wing still had an external strut, the fuselage layout was familiar, and it was only a little faster thanks to the retractable gear reducing drag. It sold well, but Cessna's engineers knew the airplane was being held back by that strut.