- Date
- July 24, 1983, 13:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Fredricksburg, VA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N69979Cessna 310Q
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830724034719A
- Case key
- 6136
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The acft crashed and burned during a go-around after touching down on the rwy at about the 1500 ft point on a 3000 ft rwy. The right propeller was feathered. The pilot was attempting a single engine practice landing and believed he could not stop on the rwy so he tried a single engine go-around. The acft climbed to about 100 ft AGL before settling to the ground where it caught fire about 1/2 mile to the right of the extended centerline. The federal aviation administration flt training handbook states that simulated engine out practice at low alt. Should be accomplished by reducing power to zero thrust. The operators handbook states that if a single eng. Go-around is absolutely necessary it should be done at airspeeds of 105 or more, eng. RPM at 2625 and full throttle. The flaps and landing gear should be retracted. The handbook also states that a normal landing with 35 degrees of flaps on hard surface with no wind and max braking will have a ground roll of 582 ft at 5300# gross weight at 103 mph.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N69979
- Reported as
- Cessna 310Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1052
- Airframe hours
- 2,800
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-VO, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Amos J. Willis
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · June 1, 1983 · 50 hours before
- Airport
- Shannon, runway 24, 3,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 38
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 650 total · 85 in this make and model · 650 as pilot in command · 58 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 35 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F
- Observed at
- W07
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.