- Date
- December 1, 2014, 20:00 local (Dec 2, 2014, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Edinburg, TX
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9452TCessna 210
- Defining event
- Enroute: Loss of engine power (total)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 2015
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20141201023989A
- Case key
- 90462
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion, which resulted from the non-certificated pilot's inadequate preflight planning and inflight decision making.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The non-certificated pilot and passengers were on a local flight when the engine lost power. The pilot conducted a forced landing, about 10 miles from the airport. Examination of the airplane revealed damage to the landing gear and substantial damage to the wings and fuselage. Further examination of the airplane revealed that wing fuel tanks were empty, and not breached in the accident.
Factual narrative
The non-certificated pilot and passengers were on a local flight when the engine lost power. The pilot conducted a forced landing, about 10 miles from the airport. Examination of the airplane revealed damage to the landing gear and substantial damage to the wings and fuselage. Further examination of the airplane revealed that wing fuel tanks were empty, and not breached in the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9452T
- Reported as
- Cessna 210
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 57252
- Built
- 1960
- Engine
- Continental IO-470, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
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
- 44
- Injuries
- None
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Wind
- 90° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.22 inHg
- Observed at
- KEBG
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 9, 2015, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 25 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.