- Date
- July 3, 1990, 21:40 local (Jul 4, 1990, 02:40 UTC)
- Place
- College Station, TX
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7546QCessna 310Q
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900703023359A
- Case key
- 23150
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Probable cause
The pic's improper fuel tank selection, allowing both engine to quit due to fuel starvation.
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
Pilot said that after left engine quit while turning final, he switched the left engine from the left main to left aux. He said engine restarted, then quit again. Then right engine, running on right main, quit. During forced landing, short of the runway, the nose gear collapsed. Both left tanks were empty. Right main had 19 gallons, right aux had 4 gallons. Using fuel management as pilot said, the left tanks could not both run dry. Left engine would have had to have been on left main or left aux, and right engine would have had to have been on crossfeed to left main. When the left tanks ran dry, the left and the right engine would have quit running.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7546Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 310Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310Q0046
- Airframe hours
- 3,607
- Engine
- Continental IO-470U9B, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Ronnie L Huddleston
- Registered owner
- Black, Delbert L
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 19, 1989 · 36 hours before
- Departed
- Ft Wayne, IN
- Destination
- CLL
- Airport
- CLL · Easterwood, runway 16, 7,000 × 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
- Age
- 40
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,762 total · 10 in this make and model · 2,475 as pilot in command · 90 in the last 90 days · 60 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Temperature
- 90 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N7546Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.