- Date
- March 11, 1992, 15:36 local (21:36 UTC)
- Place
- Tuscaloosa, AL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N87355Cessna 310R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920311005869A
- Case key
- 8569
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Probable cause
The instructor's inadequate supervision and the student pilot's failure to follow instructions.
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 flight instructor was giving multi-engine instruction to a student. He briefed that on the takeoff roll, a simulated engine failure would occur, and he also briefed the recovery procedure. On the takeoff roll, he initiated the simulated engine failure, and the student failed to respond. The instructor did not react promptly enough to prevent a loss of control, and the aircraft veered off of the runway to the left. The left main gear tore away from the airframe, resulting in structural damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N87355
- Reported as
- Cessna 310R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310R0526
- Engine
- Continental IO-520M, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Tuscaloosa Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Watts, Jack V.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Airport
- TCL · Tuscaloosa Muni, runway 22, 6,499 × 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
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Unknown
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 2,300 total · 250 in this make and model · 25 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TCL, 1 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.