- Date
- September 30, 1990, 18:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- White Plains, GA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6523XCessna 210
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900930043409A
- Case key
- 8285
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Probable cause
The fuel starvation to the engine for undertermined 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
During normal cruise flight, the pilot reported that his engine quit. While attempting a restart, he could obtain no fuel pressure indications. He forced landed the airplane in a field and it nosed over on the rough terrain. He reported that both fuel tanks were about half full at the time of the accident. An examination of the airplane after the accident did not reveal any evidence of engine malfunction or failure. An examination of the fuel system revealed that the auxiliary fuel pump circuit breaker would not visually indicate tripped when in fact the breaker was tripped.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6523X
- Reported as
- Cessna 210
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 57523
- Airframe hours
- 3,558
- Engine
- Continental IO-470E, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Grecol Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Grecol Aviation
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 19, 1989 · 98 hours before
- Departed
- 48J · Thomson, GA
- Destination
- 9A1 · Covington, GA
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
- 31
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 71 total · 67 in this make and model · 42 as pilot in command · 71 in the last 90 days · 36 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.