- Date
- February 9, 1989, 00:45 local (05:45 UTC)
- Place
- Cleveland, OH
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6269QCessna 310Q
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report August 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890209041069A
- Case key
- 7923
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Probable cause
An uncontrolled descent into the water for undetermined reasons.
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 had diverted into Cleveland hopkins airport when the weather at the intended destination of burke lakefront worsened to below landing minimums. After about 30 minutes on the ground at cle and after a telephone call to the company dispatcher the pilot elected to fly the air cargo to bkl. After departing cle, the airplane disappeared from radar and radio contact was lost. The pilot's body was recovered from lake erie on July 10, 1989. It was reported that a snow storm was in progress in the area where radio and radio contact with the airplane was lost at the time of the disappearance. The airplane wreckage has not been recovered.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6269Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 310Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310Q0527
- Airframe hours
- 4,692
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-V, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Bowman Aviation
- Registered owner
- Ed Foss
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 28, 1989
- Departed
- CLE · Cleveland, OH
- Destination
- BKL · Cleveland, OH
- Airport
- BKL
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
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,800 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 5,850 as pilot in command · 300 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 250° at 25 knots, gusting 32
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 9 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BKL, 5 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.