- Date
- October 2, 1988, 00:50 local (05:50 UTC)
- Place
- Tell City, IN
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8157QCessna 310Q
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report January 4, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881002042829A
- Case key
- 14292
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot flew a VOR approach to the airport, but was too high to land on the approach runway. He executed a circling VFR pattern to land on the reciprocal runway, then flew into the ground fog in the descending base turn. The left wing struck a tree while in the turn. The pilot had recieved a complete weather brief of the existing conditions, and saw patchy ground fog prior to executing the approach. The pilot and passenger had left at 0830 the previous day, flown to a football game, and were returning when the accident occurred at 0050 EST.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8157Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 310Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310Q0620
- Airframe hours
- 2,600
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-VO, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Morgan Aviation, doing business as Morgan Aviation
- Registered owner
- Morgan Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 10, 1988 · 80 hours before
- Departed
- LEX · Lexington, KY
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- TEL · Perry County Airport, runway 13, 3,200 × 60 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
- 25
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,846 total · 253 in this make and model · 2,563 as pilot in command · 187 in the last 90 days · 75 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 250° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EVV, 19 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.