# Incident 20000207000329I: Cessna 210M, Bessemer, AL, February 7, 2000

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 7, 2000, 10:30 local time
- Place: Bessemer, AL
- Phase of flight: Climb
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Operator: DKBA
- Location: 33.4018° N, 86.9544° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Bessemer, AL, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.4018&lon=-86.9544&mi=10
- Aircraft: N1781M, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N1781M-2010-05-21) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 210M (registry code 2073450, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-210m) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-520-L (registry code 17239, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-520-l) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 210M
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,253 total, 12 in this make and model, 12 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000207000329I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) PILOT WAS FLYING A CESSNA 210 FOR AIR CARRIERS, INC. ON A REPOSITIONING FLIGHT FROM ALBANY, GEORGIA TO VALDOSTA, GEORGIA.  THE FLIGHT DEPARTED ALBANY AND WAS IN A CLIMBING THROUGH 3000 FEET WHEN THE ENGINE BEGAN TO RUN IRREGULAR.  THE PILOT SWITCHED TANKS BUT THE ENGINE QUIT. THE PILOT WAS ABLE TO MAKE A SUCCESSFUL EMERGENCY LANDING ON A FARMERS FIELD.  THERE WERE NO DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT AND NO INJURIES TO THE PILOT OR GROUND PERSONNEL.  AN AIRCRAFT MECHANIC INSPECTED THE AIRCRAFT AND FOUND THAT THE AIRCRAFT HAD ABOUT ONE PINT OF FUEL IN THE LOW POINT DRAIN AND NO FUEL IN EITHER OF THE WING TANKS.  THE AIRCRAFT WAS THEN FUELED, A RUN UP WAS CONDUCTED, THE AIRCRAFT WAS THEN TEST FLOWN SUCCESSFULLY.  A TOTAL OF EIGHTY FIVE GALLONS OF FUEL TOPPED OFF THE FUEL TANKS.  THE AIRCRAFT WAS RETURNED TO SERVICE.

## Other reports on N1781M (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 19981026034029I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19981026034029I), Oct 26, 1998: Cessna 210M (N1781M), Marthas Vineyar, MA, Minor damage. At approximately 0910, this office received a call from the FAA communications center regarding a Cessna 210 that landed in a field 3 miles south of the…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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