- Date
- June 16, 1994, 08:15 local (14:15 UTC)
- Place
- Santa Teresa, NM
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N199CHCessna T210N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 7, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940616015409A
- Case key
- 19088
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Probable cause
A power loss due to engine driven fuel pump failure. A factor was the lack of suitable terrain for a forced landing.
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 entering downwind for a second touch-and-go landing, the engine lost power and would not restart. A forced landing was conducted with initial touchdown across a taxiway/runway exit at 90 degrees to the runway. Ground roll ended in a ditch. Examination of the engine by an FAA inspector revealed that the engine driven fuel pump was nonfunctional.
Factual narrative
On June 16, 1994, at 0815 mountain daylight time, a Cessna T210N, N199CH, suffered an engine failure while in the pattern at Santa Teresa Airport, New Mexico. During the ensuing forced landing, on a taxiway, the aircraft went off the taxiway onto unprepared terrain and incurred substantial damage. The pilot and passenger were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for this local flight.
According to the pilot, he had completed one touch-and-go and was entering down wind for runway 28 when the engine ceased to operate. Attempts at a restart were unsuccessful and a forced landing was conducted at 90 degrees to the runway/taxiway with initial touchdown on a runway exit. Ground roll was across the runway, a grass area, and into a ditch which was approximately 60 feet wide and 5 feet deep.
According to the FAA inspector who examined the aircraft, the engine driven fuel pump would not pump fuel during his examination.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N199CH
- Reported as
- Cessna T210N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21064625
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-R, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Hurd Enterprises
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- 5T6 · Santa Teresa
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
- 37
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,485 total · 412 in this make and model · 1,352 as pilot in command · 39 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 100 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ELP, 30 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.