- Date
- April 12, 1992, 11:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hugo, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N331BXCessna 310-L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 18169
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Probable cause
Failure of the left voltage regulator. Factors were: failure of the pilot/mechanic to properly maintain the aircraft, and failure of the right alternator circuit breaker.
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
While in cruise flight, on an IFR flight plan, with the right alternator inoperative, the left voltage regulator failed causing an over voltage and subsequent electrical fire. The fire was extinguished and the flight continued without communications or navigation equipment to the planned destination where repairs were conducted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N331BX
- Reported as
- Cessna 310-L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0168
- Engine
- Continental IO-470, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Fire
- In-Flight
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bell, Anthony H.
- Registered owner
- Bell, Anthony H.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- HQZ · Mesquite, TX
- Destination
- APA · Englewood, CO
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 34
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,108 total · 60 in this make and model · 1,054 as pilot in command · 71 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F