- Date
- June 23, 1988, 13:29 local (20:29 UTC)
- Place
- Big Bear Lake, CA
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N170RCessna 310
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 13, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880623023609A
- Case key
- 25839
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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 recently certificated multiengine pilot and friends flew to big Bear airport for lunch. The density altitude at the airport was about 8,000 feet. The pilot entered a south downwind leg for runway 07 at the airport following a Mooney 231. Ground witnesses reported that the airplane was flying very slow when it was on the downwind leg. When the airplane entered the base leg. It stalled and entered into a spin. The airplane crashed in a near vertical descent attitude. The post crash investigation revealed that the airplane's landing gears and flaps were extended; the amount of flap extension, however, could not be determined. The investigation did not disclose any preexisting malfunctions or failures.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N170R
- Reported as
- Cessna 310
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 35003
- Airframe hours
- 3,853
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-D, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ted Raymond Hill
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 17, 1988 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- L66 · Corona, CA
- Destination
- L35
- Airport
- L-35 · Big Bear City Airport, runway 7, 5,850 × 75 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
- 51
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 364 total · 96 in this make and model · 263 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 15 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
- Observed at
- L35, 2 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.