19980131000799I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 210F · Death Valley, CA · January 31, 1998

Date
January 31, 1998 · 16:30 local
Place
Death Valley, CA
Airport
Death Valley Airport
Phase of flight
To Aborted (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N1868F
Reported as
Cessna 210F
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,000 total1,000 in this make and model20 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Narrative: pilot reported power hesitation on take-off roll and aborted take-off. Insufficient runway remaining to stop. Ran off the end of runway. Power hesitation is unexplained, aircraft owner is in process of having engine and fuel system inspected to determine cause.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: PILOT REPORTED POWER HESITATION ON TAKE-OFF ROLL AND ABORTED TAKE-OFF. INSUFFICIENT RUNWAY REMAINING TO STOP. RAN OFF THE END OF RUNWAY. POWER HESITATION IS UNEXPLAINED, AIRCRAFT OWNER IS IN PROCESS OF HAVING ENGINE AND FUEL SYSTEM INSPECTED TO DETERMINE CAUSE.