- Date
- July 10, 1988, 02:00 local (06:00 UTC)
- Place
- New Bern, NC
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N670RCessna 310
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report September 25, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880710026069A
- Case key
- 7786
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt rptd the lt engine lost pwr on 'very short final'. Shortly thereafter, he heard the stall warning. The airplane rolled and yawed left, and crashed nose-down short of the rwy. The acft was examined the next day by an FAA inspector; he rptd finding no evidence of a mech malfunction. He estimated that only 3 gal of fuel remained in the lt main tank: the rt main & 2 aux tanks had sustained impact damage and were empty. The inst panel contained a placard iaw AD 69-15-09 which stated that ops w/ less than 5 gal in ea main tank was prohibited. The plt indicated that he thought the unusable qty was 1 gal per tank. He rptd that the fuel gauges had indicated 7 gal in ea main tank and 10-11 gal in ea aux tank during final appch, and that he found an estimated 5-7 gal of fuel remaining in the lt main tank shortly after the accident. He noted that he had stopped using the aux tanks earlier in the flt when the rt engine began to run rough; the roughness ceased when he switched back to the mains.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N670R
- Reported as
- Cessna 310
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 35081
- Airframe hours
- 4,126
- Engine
- Continental IO-470, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Falcon Air Service, doing business as Falcon Air Service
- Registered owner
- Hedges, Kenneth C.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 2, 1987 · 21 hours before
- Departed
- ECG · Elizabeth City, NC
- Airport
- EWN · Simmons Nott, runway 22, 4,804 × 150 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 615 total · 258 in this make and model · 447 as pilot in command · 46 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 220° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EWN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N670R · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.