- Date
- April 22, 1992, 20:50 local (Apr 23, 1992, 01:50 UTC)
- Place
- Austin, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5936MCessna 310P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920422010619A
- Case key
- 18480
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Probable cause
The approach controller's failure to properly sequence arriving traffic, and the tower controller's failure to sequence and separate landing traffic. Factors in the accident were: the pilot's failure to obtain a landing clearance and the night light conditions.
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
The flt had been vectored for runway 13R by approach control from the point of initial contact. It was then handed off to tower; there was no verbal coordination between approach & tower. A military transport helicopter executed an approach to the same runway ahead of the accident airplane, and terminated at about a 300-FT hover over the runway. The pilot of the accident airplane requested vectors for separation; tower responded separation '...should be just fine....' Shortly thereafter, while the airplane was over the threshold of runway 13R, the pilot requested confirmation that she was supposed to be behind the helicopter. The tower responded '...you were cleared to land on the left runway.' The pilot responded 'okay understand we were one three right.' As the airplane was flaring, it encountered vortex turbulence from the helicopter and control was lost. The tower never issued the accident airplane a landing clearance to either runway, nor was a clearance to land requested by the pilot.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5936M
- Reported as
- Cessna 310P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310P0236
- Airframe hours
- 4,982
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-VO, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Stramel Aviation
- Registered owner
- Stramel Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 20, 1991 · 48 hours before
- Departed
- ADS · Addison, TX
- Airport
- AUS · Mueller, runway 13, 7,270 × 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
- 35
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 842 total · 156 in this make and model · 763 as pilot in command · 147 in the last 90 days · 33 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 150° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.