- Date
- January 23, 1993, 07:55 local (14:55 UTC)
- Place
- Greeley, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3303XCessna 310L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930123000749A
- Case key
- 18270
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
Poor in flight planning and decision making by the flight instructor in allowing the student to progress to a point where a safe flight regimen could not be maintained. A factor was: the dual students failure to maintain control of the aircraft.
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 the landing phase, after conducting a simulated single engine approach, the student failed to maintain control of the aircraft. The instructor took control and during the attempted go around the aircraft struck several snow banks and then became airborne. Contact with the snow banks caused damage to all three landing gear and both propellers. After orbiting for approximately two hours and fifty minutes, to burn off fuel, an emergency landing was made which caused damage to the left tip tank, nose section, and main fuselage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3303X
- Reported as
- Cessna 310L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310L-0153
- Airframe hours
- 5,133
- Engine
- Continental IO-470, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Flat Iron Aviation
- Registered owner
- Edb Air, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 2, 1992 · 47 hours before
- Departed
- 1V5 · Boulder, CO
- Airport
- GXY · Weld County Airport, runway 9, 6,210 × 100 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 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,980 total · 71 in this make and model · 1,800 as pilot in command · 182 in the last 90 days · 37 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 18 knots, gusting 23
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 25 °F, dew point 12 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.